Learning Dart

client- or browser-side and a server-side with databases. There are many different

technologies to master in order to feel comfortable with a full client-server stack. There

are different frameworks with different objectives. There are different programming

languages as well that a developer must learn, each one more suitable either for the server-

side or for the client-side.

Learning Dart will make a developer become more productive by using Dart both for

clients and servers. Using the same language, a developer will lose neither performance

nor flexibility. Dart can be used within its virtual machine or its code may be compiled to

JavaScript. In both the cases, the performance benchmarks show promising scores

(https://www.dartlang.org/performance/). Dart is both an object-oriented and a functional

language. A mix of both the approaches is possible with Dart, providing great professional

freedom and programming background flexibility. In addition, Dart provides many

libraries and tools (http://pub.dartlang.org/) to allow a developer focus on the tasks at hand

and not be concerned with all the aspects of software development.

With Polymer.dart (https://www.dartlang.org/polymer-dart/), a new approach of

developing web applications with web components will allow a developer to divide a web

page in sections and reuse an already developed and tested web component for each

section. In the near future, different catalogs of web components will appear, enabling,

after waiting for many years, an engineering approach to software development. A web

component may be derived from other web components. It may pass data to its

components. A web component may inherit its behavior from another web component. It

may access an already instantiated web component.