Posted by Filip Hracek, Program
Manager, Dart
Videos from last month’s Dart Developer Summit are up
on YouTube and we thought we’d cherry-pick the highlights for you.
The summit
keynote is a summary of all the major news and of the direction the team is
taking now. It’s where we announced that Dart is the fastest growing language at Google. Teams
switching to Dart report up to twice the productivity and development speed of what they had
previously.
Next, AngularDart
2.0 was launched
in a presentation by Ferhat Buyukkokten and Matan Lurey. They showed how
they made the framework’s output 40% smaller and 15% faster in the 4 months since AngularDart
got
its own dedicated team. They also showed our 60 fps table using setState(), and the
new testing framework called NgTestBed.
Later in the day, Ted Sander launched AngularDart
Components — the material design widgets Google is using in
customer-facing apps like AdWords and AdSense. Hundreds of Google engineers work with these
components every day. Watch
the video to learn how they make our teams more productive, and our web
apps more performant.
If you’re interested in language design, watch Sound
Dart, a talk by Leaf Petersen in which he explains Dart’s strong mode. With
strong mode, Dart’s type system becomes sound, so that when you write types they are
guaranteed to be correct (while still allowing you to write dynamically typed code where you
want the flexibility). This differentiates strong-mode Dart from many popular
compile-to-JavaScript languages, and improves both performance and developer productivity.
Another presentation that made waves was the Flutter
keynote from Day 2 of the summit. Eric Seidel impressed the audience by
showing just how fast mobile development can be with Flutter.
After Eric’s talk, John McCutchan and Todd Turnidge went into details about Flutter hot
reloading. They also showed, for the first time, code rewind in Dart.
These are just 6 out of the 18 talks that are available on YouTube. For example, Will Ekiel’s
talk titled Learnings
from building a CRM app at Google gives a perspective on managing
a product built with Dart and deploying it across both web and mobile. Another
interesting practical presentation on using Dart in production is the one
given by Faisal Abid and Kevin Birch about their large-scale
JS-to-AngularDart rewrite. And the list goes on.
We’re very happy how the event went, and we’re already looking forward for next year’s summit.
In the meantime, follow our blog, our Twitter account, our G+ page, or join
the conversation in any other way. We want to hear from you.
Thanks for building in Dart.
