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A comment on Dart 1.24: Faster edit-refresh cycle on the web and new function type syntax. Parent comment

Re:Dart 1.24: Faster edit-refresh cycle on the web and new f... by floitsch on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @03:20PM (#14547759)
There are no plans to add multithreading to the platform.

Currently, we are not spending resources on parallel execution (with isolates), either. There are other easier features that have more impact.

Eventually, we will revisit this topic, and see if we can make things easier. Multithreading itself is extremely unlikely, but there are other ways we can make parallel execution better; for example with easier data sharing between isolates.

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Re:Dart 1.24: Faster edit-refresh cycle on the web and new f... by markdog12 on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @03:49PM (#14548000)
> There are other easier features that have more impact

Which features?

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Re:Dart 1.24: Faster edit-refresh cycle on the web and new f... by floitsch on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:45AM (#14558392)
For example:

- better type promotion (`if (x is! A) throw "not A"; useAsA(x);`.

- Optional new/const.

- Allowing named arguments at any position at the call site.

These are all easier to specify and implement, and reach more users.

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