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Dart is an open-source, general-purpose programming language developed by Google, designed for building high-quality applications across various platforms, including mobile, web, desktop, and server environments. It is the primary language for Flutter, Google's UI toolkit for crafting natively compiled applications from a single codebase. Dart's syntax is clean and familiar, making it accessible to developers with backgrounds in languages like JavaScript, Java, or C#. Its strong typing system, combined with features like sound null safety and pattern matching, ensures robust and maintainable code. Dart supports both Just-in-Time (JIT) and Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation, enabling rapid development cycles with hot reload capabilities and optimized performance in production. Additionally, Dart's concurrency model, based on isolates, allows for efficient multi-threading without shared memory, enhancing application responsiveness and scalability. Key Features and Functionality: - Object-Oriented Programming: Dart supports classes, inheritance, and polymorphism, promoting code reuse and modular development. - Asynchronous Programming: With built-in support for asynchronous operations using `async` and `await` keywords, Dart simplifies the handling of tasks like network requests and file I/O, improving application responsiveness. - Cross-Platform Development: Dart compiles to native machine code for mobile and desktop applications and to JavaScript for web applications, enabling developers to target multiple platforms with a single codebase. - Sound Null Safety: Dart's null safety feature ensures that variables cannot hold null values unless explicitly allowed, preventing common runtime errors and enhancing code reliability. - Rich Standard Library: Dart offers a comprehensive set of libraries for tasks such as file I/O, network communication, and UI development, accelerating the development process. - Strong Typing with Type Inference: Dart's statically typed system, combined with type inference, allows for early error detection while maintaining code simplicity. - Just-In-Time (JIT) and Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) Compilation: JIT compilation facilitates fast development cycles with hot reload, while AOT compilation ensures optimized performance for production by generating native machine code ahead of time. - Isolates for Concurrency: Dart utilizes isolates, independent workers that do not share memory, to achieve concurrency, allowing applications to perform multiple tasks simultaneously without blocking the main execution thread. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Dart addresses the challenges of modern application development by providing a unified language and framework for building high-performance, cross-platform applications. Its integration with Flutter allows developers to create visually appealing and natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase, significantly reducing development time and effort. The combination of strong typing, sound null safety, and a rich standard library ensures that applications are robust, maintainable, and less prone to runtime errors. Dart's support for asynchronous programming and efficient concurrency models enhances application responsiveness and scalability, meeting the demands of today's dynamic and interactive user experiences.

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Chaitanya M.

Android Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/15/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Dart is easy to learn and use."

4/5

What do you like best about Dart?

The simplicity to learn and use the dart Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

I don't found any feature of dart to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Antonio V.

Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/9/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Flutter dev's excellent experience with Dart"

4/5

What do you like best about Dart?

The best feature of Dart is its simplicity. I like how fast can you achieve something with less typing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

I didn't write any Dart code for a while now, but the thing I was missing coming from Swift was null safety feature. I saw that feature is implemented, so that is really nice to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dart:

I think that Dart has a very bright future. A big company like Google is behind the development of this language and it is already looking really good. Can't wait to see what future updates will bring us. So I would like to recommend this language to any enthusiast who likes to try new things in life and enjoy programming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dart solving and how is that benefiting you?

Benefits of using Dart were that I was pretty faster in doing the same work I would do in C# for example. And I think that benefit is the biggest. Also, async/await is so good in Dart that it helped me solve a lot of networking problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manvendra S.

Lead Associate

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/2/2020

"Dart | Why does it matter to us"

5/5

What do you like best about Dart?

Dart is easy to pick up. If you are coming from a JavaScript background, then you will find many concepts familiar and easy to use. The language allows you to work without using types or you can use types just like TypeScript. If you are familiar with async/await in JavaScript then congratulations, you are right at home. The tooling around Dart is much better compared to even TypeScript. To me, Dart is the best language that Google has created after Go Lang.

If you haven't used the language, then try once, and you'll not look back. Thanks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

Nothing!! Dart is a really good language to work in, and with every release, it's becoming a fun language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dart:

Like every good thing in life, you have to experience it. Who am I to force you to do so. I can only tell, yes it's a good language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dart solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Dart to develop Mobile applications, of course using well know Flutter framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harsh B.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/1/2020

"Dart is very simple to understand & very clear to write codes"

5/5

What do you like best about Dart?

I use Dart only for Android application development using Flutter( and Dart). Among all the other languages that I have used, I found Dart a lot simpler and effective language. Best thing is that Dart has combination of pros of Java as well as Python (Similar to Python various data types & built-in functions for those data types and instead of following those indentation rules we simply use parenthesis like in Java which I personally prefer). Readily provided functions for important operations on in built data types is very handy. It is very easy to divide program/software/application files in different modules and then integrate them. Dart has become very famous and one of the most preferred language specially for Android application development that many useful packages are available to develop application with various functionalities easily without the need of configuration from the scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

I have personal experience that Dart takes slightly more time to run/debug a than Java and/or Python. There is not a big difference, it is near to negligible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dart:

Go for it! It is very easy to understand and write code in effective way. Offered features and the packages available are great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dart solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have been using Dart for Android application development using Flutter framework. The application I have been developing using Dart is used in a local business to maintain the records of purchase and sale. I have found it a lot easier to convert my logic and idea into the running code. I personally found Dart very clear language to write programs, and using in-build data types for implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham J.

CTO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/1/2020

"I use dart to paint up my front end UI for my web and Android project!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dart?

Dart is a very practical and more developer friendly code to do your coding for any projects. It is mostly based on the C++ code style so if you are coming from that platform than it is very seamless to get onboard into this. Dart can be use to develop your frontend for any project like android, web embedded etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

There should be more fundamental videos about the dart programming on the official site , so i hope more YouTube videos will be included for the novice developer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dart:

Use dart to speed up your development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dart solving and how is that benefiting you?

The dart is a objective type language and the main thing that iam solving is to develop my Frontend ui for my project . Dart helps me to complete my project in less amount of time and the error are very low. The integration between dart and flutter is amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vadiraja T.

Project Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2020

"Best for optimizations"

4/5

What do you like best about Dart?

The client support provided by the dart is excellent where we never had the problem to reach out to the support team much in any circumstance. The ease of use makes this language the best I have ever seen. The kind of auto-suggestions and other development mechanisms which has been supported for is vast. The web interface and optimization made it one of the easiest which can be thought of. Some of the bug fixes has been really fast and I think this may give a good competition to python or ruby in upcoming days due to the additional features which cannot be seen in other languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

The external communicators and other platforms will not work much easier compared to any other constants. Better they take a look at it though. The glitches which I encountered during my initial use was really tough to crack and the usage is a bit complex in UI which makes this a bit harder. Other than that this would be the best language so far in the upcoming days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dart:

It's the better one which is yet to be perfected out there. But the service currently present outweighs that. Go for it, if you have sufficient amount of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dart solving and how is that benefiting you?

I mostly use Dart for my Web UI which is increasingly easy to work with visual studio and other external software like turbo. This was the so far the fastest debug-able kind of thing I have seen so far. This could be one of the best only if the versatility can be induced more than which it have currently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hassan K.

Mobile Application Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/26/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Dart is Love."

5/5

What do you like best about Dart?

I used java for 2 years but now when I am using dart it's so much better than other technologies it's easy and powerful. I like the code flow speed and use of plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

it's almost good just need to improve native functions for accessing hardware features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dart:

Use Dart for Mobile or development it's totally easy, open-source, and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dart solving and how is that benefiting you?

I already discussed the benefits such as small code and big work, speed, best UI design, etc. the only thing that should be added for the developers is the UI preview like XML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ABHISHEK PARTAP S.

System Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/24/2020

"Handy to Get Started in Dart Language"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Dart?

Having already studied about Object-Oriented Programming Languages like Java and C++, Getting Hands on to Dart was easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

There are not many tutorials on Youtube or other learning Platforms. The tutorials available are also not standalone for a particular topic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dart:

Do learn any Object Oriented Programming Language like Java or C++ before starting studying it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dart solving and how is that benefiting you?

I started using Dart when I shifted to Android App Development in the Flutter Framework. And It is with the help of dart language that I'm able to develop native apps using a single codebase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abdul A.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/8/2021

"It feels great and I use it as my daily driver"

5/5

What do you like best about Dart?

As it's a Dynamically typed language that helps a lot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

There's nothing to be disliked about when it comes to dart Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ammad Tariq M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/30/2020

"It's actually good. I will try recommending it to others too."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Dart?

It is actually optimized. It is object-oriented based and C-style syntax, so if somebody knows about C, it's not difficult to use Dart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dart?

I don't see any yet. Maybe in the future, if I find something, I will let you know maybe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dart:

Dart is not difficult to use. Because it has the same syntax as C and you can do a lot with it. Try it once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dart solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can actually create mobile apps or even servers. It is object-oriented style and syntax same as C, so I don't have to learn something new to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.