Category: Dart

Google simply cannot create a good, usable programming language, and when it does, it always kills it with something else (usually an unintuitive editor, or Java), so the whole language and its libraries barely survive and nobody uses them. A few bullet points of thoughts on Dart: Google killed Dart Editor – I tried plenty …

Here I will explain the limits of the Number data type in JS and the Double,Int types in Dart. I will not deal with “pure” JS here, but with the JS you compile from Dart. If you have an integer in JavaScript, it is very simple: the correct limit is given by MDN, which is …

When you fetch data from a service, you will often get it as JSON. For these cases, Dart has a dedicated JSON class, which lives in the Dart SDK library dart:convert. Here we will focus mainly on its static method decode. Say another page or handler returns this string: {"web":"pacman"}. How do you get the …

Today I spent quite a long time on this, about 2 hours. I kept trying the static methods of the dart:html.HttpRequest class, but no matter what I did, I just couldn’t get the content of the page or handler, whether I tried the asStream or getString methods followed by then() or other methods – everything …

I have tried to make friends with Dart several times already. Unfortunately, as a mere replacement for JS it seemed a bit unnecessary to me, but now that you can also write Chrome Packaged Apps and console applications in Dart, whose output is printed in the Dart Editor (or surely somewhere in Chrome if the …