Ask HN: Anyone using DartLang for serverside work?

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I hadn't looked at https://dart.dev/ in ages, but it looks pretty good these days. I've tried it out very briefly and it has a dynamic feel when developing but can be easily compiled to stand-alone executable, which I really like. Anyone have any real world experience with using it on the backend? How did it go?

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I don't think it's very big in the server side community, but the mobile development platform Flutter [1] has taken off and we've enjoyed it so far.

Dart is alright as a language, but it doesn't interoperate very well with other systems due to it's lack of runtime-reflection, just try parsing a [2] JSON message!

[1] https://flutter.dev/

[2] https://medium.com/flutter-community/how-to-parse-json-in-fl...

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