Dart is one of those languages that has always felt obscure to me, even though there appears to be a lot of work put into it. What are folks using it for?
It’s used with Flutter, Google’s app development framework. I really enjoy Dart as a language, but it is fairly young and missing a few conveniences (such as data classes). It also can’t compile to dynamic libraries, only executables. Despite that, it is very pleasant if you enjoy managed languages.
I taught myself Dart a couple of years ago, and enjoyed the language, but never found a compelling use for it.
For anything I might do in Dart, there's a better alternative. For backend stuff, I'm going to write in Java or Kotlin. For frontend stuff, I'm going to write in JS or TypeScript. I like Flutter, but Flutter by itself isn't reason enough to adopt Dart.
Long term, if Jetpack for Desktop actually takes off, I don't see any reason to write in anything but Kotlin.
Indeed the perfect language/tech stack would be immensely popular and never have any SO questions, as everything would be obvious and easy to figure out without help...
