Dart Introduction / Dart Overview
Dart programming language was originally developed by Lars Bak and Kasper Lund in 2011 at Google.Inc Organization. Dart was revealed at the GOTO conference organized at Aarhus, Denmark, in October 2011.
What is Dart?
Dart is a general-purpose programming language originally developed by Google and later approved as a standard by Ecma organization. It is used to build web, server and mobile applications. It supports optionally typed(Static as well as Dynamic) language with Object Oriented Concepts.
Dart is an object-oriented, strongly typed, single inheritance language using a C-style syntax that transcompiles(compiler that converts the source code of a program into another language.) optionally into JavaScript. It supports classes, interfaces, polymorphism, abstract classes, generics, static typing and strongly typed system.
Dart is a Google’s Replacement to take on Javascript as the Default Programming Language of the web.
Why Dart?
Developers at Google and outside uses Dart to create high-quality apps for iOS, Android, and Web with features targeted for client-side development. Dart is a great fit for both mobile and web apps.
Productive
Dart’s syntax is clear and concise. its tooling is simple but powerful. Dart has feature-rich libraries and an thousands of packages having predefined classes to make your coding easier.
Fast
Dart provides optimizing ahead-of-time compilation to get predictably high performance and fast startup across mobile devices and the web.
Portable
Dart is platform-independent language. So that dart mobile apps can run natively on iOS, Android, and Web. For web apps, Dart transpiles(that generates JavaScript equivalent of a Dart code) to JavaScript.
Approachable
Developers have found that Dart is particularly easy to learn because it has features that are familiar to users of both static and dynamic languages.
Dart is familiar to many existing language as it has conventional syntax structure based object oriented programming. If you already know C++, C#, or Java, you can be easily familiar with Dart in just few days.
Reactive
Dart is well-suited to reactive programming due to Dart’s fast object allocation and garbage collector. Dart supports asynchronous programming through language features and APIs that use Future and Stream objects.
Usages of Dart
Dart is a scalable language that you can use to write simple scripts(Programs) or full featured apps. Whether you’re creating 1) a mobile app 2)web app 3)command-line script, or server apps.
Dart helps you to build beautiful, creative, high-quality, smooth user experience UI by providing flexible support for flutter SDK to create beautiful iOS and Android apps.
Dart compilation is very fast, predictable. Which helps flutter framework to make its components easily customisable.
Dart has fast development cycles and game-changing workflow due to its Just In Time compilation.
Flutter have the biggest advantage over other languages(like java, swift etc) as Flutter doesn’t require a separate declarative language(XML or JSX etc.) required to create an app layout due to dart’s declarative and programmatic support.
All these unique features makes dart very powerful for building Flutter Framework to create beautiful and user-friendly android and ios apps.
Dart code execution
There are three main ways to run dart code.
- Dart code can run on all major browsers with no need for browsers to adopt Dart. while running Dart code in a web browser the code is precompiled into JavaScript using the dart2js compiler.
- The Dart SDK also ships with a stand-alone Dart Virtual Machine, allowing dart code/program to run in a command-line interface environment(Command Prompt).
- Dart code can also be compiled in Ahead Of Time Mode in which, code can be directly converted in to native machine code.
At last, Dart is an interesting and emerging programming language with highly scalable features to support the development of mobile, web and command line apps.
In the case of web applications, AngularDart makes it a very powerful tool to build web apps.
In case of Mobile applications, Dart provides greater support for building android and ios apps from the same codebase.
In case of command line applications, the Dart SDK is constantly updating and developing to provide the greater user support.
Overall dart is a highly scalable and easy to learn a language for beginners while powerful and productive language for developers to build various apps efficiently.
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