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Re:Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google by devsquid on Saturday November 07, 2015 @04:14AM (#10524247)
Oh great news on the strong mode. One of my biggest issues with Dart is it not being actually statically typed.

Could you potentially generate smaller js libraries if the language was statically typed?

Re:Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google by thebosz on Saturday November 07, 2015 @01:09PM (#10525611)
A lot of the push for strong mode comes from a project to create a "plain JavaScript" compiler for Dart: https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler