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Dart: A Language You Already Know
At its heart, Dart is a conservative programming language. It was not designed to champion bold new ideas, but rather to create a predictable, stable, and developer-friendly programming environment. Made by Google, the language is relatively young, as it was shown for the first time in 2011, with the goal of unseating JavaScript as the language of the web.
Among its main features, Dart is strongly typed, supports asynchronous programming, and uses both JIT (Just-In-Time) and AOT (Ahead-Of-Time) compilation, which allows developers to write and run code quickly during development and produce optimized code for deployment.
JavaScript is a very flexible language, but its lack of a type system (addressed by TypeScript) ...
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