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Never used dart until about a month ago for Flutter. Really loving it so far - like a better typescript. So many cool language features.

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In your opinion, why is Dart a better TypeScript? Interested to hear your view, because my experience was quite different. When I learned Dart, I was mostly annoyed because it was almost exactly the same as TypeScript, but just different enough that I had to look up how to do everything again. Like, I understand that Rust is different from other languages because it brings in a totally new approach to software development, which has its use cases. But when I used Dart, I just wondered why Flutter didn't just use TypeScript, since it looks basically the same to me.

One of the really nice things about Dart in addition to the fact that it’s an AOT compiled language with truly excellent tooling and documentation is the fact that because it’s not a superset of JS it can skip a lot of the messy parts while keeping the best bits.

One good example I like to point to is the idea of mixins.

Take a look at how Dart does it here: https://dart.dev/language/mixins

Then take a look at TypeScript here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/mixins.html

You might also be interested in this https://dart.dev/resources/coming-from/js-to-dart

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