The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language

Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by alefnula on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:05PM (#33910268)

I'm surprised that no one is commenting on macros. For me, that is the most exciting feature! It'll make writing code so much more enjoyable and avoid all of the code generation happening at the moment.

But maybe I'm the only one who's bothered with code generation :D

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Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by markdog12 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:07PM (#33910305)

You're not the only one. They actually started work on macros before pattern/records, but for some reason it seems priority changed. I would have much preferred macros came first.

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Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by markdog12 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @02:21PM (#33911975)

Update: One of the Dart devs says it's because macros are higher risk and harder to get right.

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