The Essence of Google Dart: Building Applications, Snapshots, Isolates

> Using static type information in Dart doesn't help with the runtime code for several reasons. One is: the types the developer specifieѕ have no impact on the semantics at all

I wonder if string concatenation, set union and integer addition are not totally distinct cases worth optimizing.

> and, as a matter of fact, they can be totally incorrect.

And this is where Dart starts to feel really wrong.

Much more interesting than the early (over-) reactions we saw last week. This one puts Dart in a sensible context. Thanks