On the 15th of February the Google Developer Group (GDG) Brunei held a Dart Flight School at DST’s Signature Store.
Dart is a new language that learns from Javascript and adds features that are missing in Javascript such as classes and optional static typing. It aims to provide a better developer workflow and efficiency, better performance vs Javascript and can compile to Javascript in order to be deployed anywhere.
I prerecorded an “Intro to Dart” video just in case as with all things, technology can be troublesome at times =) There is also a 4 hour long Hangouts on Air recording of the entire event
The code labs served as a way to learn Dart and it is even deployable on Heroku. We also covered a bit of Angular JS with a work in progress AngularJS intro project on GitHub.
All in all, Dart seems compelling that it is more performant compared to Javascript, can be compiled to Javascript so you reap the development benefit while still maintaining deployability via Javascript, having a single language for both client and server and adding ‘modern’ features added to Javascript make it easier to develop in. Certainly an alternative to Javascript+Node and perhaps something to use in a future project.
The Wheat Field 