Re:Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps
by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @07:10PM
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> In the use cases Dart targets yes, yes they are. They are extremely unheard of.
Dart is a general purpose language it wasn't intended to be web front-end only.
> File offsets actually highlights the perfect problem with dart's approach. 2^53 isn't enough to interop with file systems using uint64
Dart ints aren't limited to 2^53 except when using dart2js. It's an arbitrary size type, otherwise. Anyplace it would need to deal with inodes, the dart2js limit wouldn't be a problem.
Dart is a general purpose language it wasn't intended to be web front-end only.
> File offsets actually highlights the perfect problem with dart's approach. 2^53 isn't enough to interop with file systems using uint64
Dart ints aren't limited to 2^53 except when using dart2js. It's an arbitrary size type, otherwise. Anyplace it would need to deal with inodes, the dart2js limit wouldn't be a problem.