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Re:Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language f... by redsolver on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:55AM (#17650855)
Dart is amazing
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Re:Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language f... by continuational on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @08:31AM (#17652616)
Yes, Dart is amazingly broken for a modern language. This compiles:

    List<Animal> animals = [Dog()];
    List<Cat> cats = animals;
What is a static type system worth if it doesn't catch type errors at compile time?
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Re:Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language f... by fcurts on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:36AM (#17654065)
Dart 2 has a sound type system and catches this at compile time.
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