Dart Language and Library Newsletters
This directory contains newsletters about the Dart language and some of its core libraries. For more information about the newsletters, see this news post.
- November 10, 2017
- Did you know: Constructors (generative, factory, redirecting, ...)
- Shorter final variables (
:=)
- November 3, 2017
- Did you know: Chunked conversions
- Optional positional and named parameters
- October 27, 2017
- October 20, 2017
- October 13, 2017
- Follow up: Evaluation order
- Did you know: double.toString*
- Why even simple language and library changes require so much thought, and why they often take so much time.
- October 6, 2017
- Did you know: Static initializers
- Changing the evaluation order
- September 29, 2017
- Did you know: JSON encoding
- Fixed-size integers
- September 22, 2017
- Did you know: Literal strings
- Void as a type
- September 15, 2017
- Did you know: Labels
- Making async functions start synchronously (instead of immediately returning)
- September 8, 2017
- Follow up: call
- Fuzzy arrow
- Enhanced type promotion
- September 1, 2017
- The case against call
- Limitations on generic types
- August 25, 2017
- Separating mixins from normal classes
- Corner cases:
- Inference vs. manual types
- Function types and covariant generics
- August 18, 2017
- Did you know: Trailing commas
- Function type syntax: Options we considered
- August 11, 2017
- Follow ups
- Void arrow functions
- Deferred loading
- Supporting const functions
- Shadowing core libraries
- August 4, 2017
- Active development:
- Better organization for docs
- Void as a type
- Updates to the core libraries
- Deferred loading
- July 28, 2017
- Intro to the newsletters
- 1.24 language changes: Function types, two void changes
- The unified front end, and what that means for language changes
- Active development:
- Better organization for docs (focusing on docs/language, with docs/language/informal for specs that aren’t yet in the language spec)
- Resolved part-of
- Strong-mode clean zones
- Void as a type
- Enhanced type promotion
- Updates to the core libraries
