Edit: if you are new to TypeScript syntax, you might find this article by @abelagoi helpful. If you're new to Dart, I'll try to write something abo...
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I've gone through both tutorials and I find the Dart version much more intuitive, especially when it comes to async/await vs. Rx. Dart is the better language and the tooling is better too. And then there is Flutter, which seems like the best thing since sliced bread when it comes to mobile development.
That said, the community seems to be nonexistent. That's why I'm forced to use Typescript at my company instead.
Dart is a much superior language to Typescript from an OOP perspective but also, and maybe more importantly, because of their collection and stream api. Also, dart has a lot of the niceties found in modern languages like optionals and class-as-interface ..
The interoperability between Typescript and Javascript is one of the biggest weaknesses of Typescript in my opinion. A lot of the main problems of javascript can bleed through and coexist with typescript. Not unlike how C-code is also valid inside of C++ code .. and C++ suffered from the same low level caveats found in C.. It was a mistake to try to put OOP on-top of C and it is still a mistake to put OOP on-top of JS... But they did it for the same reasons.. you can use all your old C libraries ! Code is much more stable and cleaner if these low-level problems are abstracted away. With a strongly typed language with optionals, bugs and crashes can often be discovered at compile time. And as you point out, the async support is first class.
Dart's functional support is awesome... its Collection API and optionals makes it where you rarely need to ever explicitly write an if statement or a for loop.. It is strongly typed with many of the bells and whistles of modern languages like Swift and Kotlin. I've developed client and server side code with both typescript and dart and in my view there is no question which is the better language.
Thanks Jake.
I was googling the
angular_clitool and that got me here. I had read this post a while back but forgot all about it. I wished I remembered this before making the AngularDart tutorial series on my YT channel.If you want to use this article to inspire another video feel free 😊 although this is pretty old and was using Angular Dart 4.X. They've since added dependency injection and all that.
By the way, Angular 5 will have the Module system and it will be optional. Already implemented in the development version of Angular 5
Angular Dart right? Yea at the time that I wrote this they hadn't implemented it yet!
Angular Dart version 5, yep. Left that part out.
Jake, many thanks for this article. Cleared a few things up for me. I've built 2 flutter prototype apps; enough to prove to myself Darts/Flutter's worthiness. Yes, it's a keeper. That said, I don't know squat of Angular. I've been using react/vue for browser work and java/kotlin (I really like kotlin) for the server side. So, it's time to learn Angular for js and dart... Thanks again.
Glad you enjoyed this post Matt! Kotlin is definitely on my list of languages to learn!
Great post! Just few issues with code examples:
WOW I was just googling about angular dart and your name popped up! How's it going!
Hey Alina! Doing great! 😁 How's it going with you?
This is perfect Jake, it crossed my mind to do something similar when I went through both tutorials. Great job!