3 days agoMember-onlyMissing Dart Features That Would Make Developers HappyAccess Modifiers While I generally appreciate the convenience of defining a property or method as private by simply employing the _ prefix, it often presents limitations: It’s less flexible. There are no protected or potential internal modifiers available to us. Furthermore, even the Dart developers concede the need for protected properties, leading…Flutter4 min readFlutter4 min read
Published inTowards Dev·May 15Member-onlyDart 3.0 got a bit fasterA few silly benchmarks to check performance differences between Dart versions. Be aware this is not some sophisticated benchmarking. I just wanted to see those numbers and thought someone else might find those to be interesting. Also, I just wanted to see the difference between Dart versions 2.19.6 and Dart…Dart4 min readDart4 min read
Published inTowards Dev·May 13Member-onlyCompose Multiplatform — first impression… is not good.It seems the cross-platform revolution is delayed… again. In this article, I will share my first experience bootstrapping a Compose Multiplatform-based cross-platform project from scratch. At a high level, my objective was to assess the ease of installing the required toolchain, making a first build, and potentially adding additional build…Kotlin7 min readKotlin7 min read
Published inTowards Dev·May 11Member-onlyDart 3.0: An exciting step toward greatness!My thoughts on the long-awaited features that would make the programming experience with Dart X times better! A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a rant criticizing Dart for being a pretty ugly language. I still think there are many things that need improvement, but Dart 3 is finally evolving…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Published inTowards Dev·Apr 24Member-onlyDart: A Terrible Language and a Huge Marketing Success!It is so amusing to see all the recent hype around Dart and the hate and disrespect toward some alternatives despite being way better designed from the beginning. In this article, I will try to show you how disillusioned you are if you think that Dart is a fantastic language…Dartlang8 min readDartlang8 min read
Apr 8Member-onlyChatGPT Can Become the Best Thing Ever Happening to Programmers!AI is here to help… at least for now. Let’s be clear - programmers, designers, writers, assistants, cleaners, and other professionals will never be replaced by AI as long as humanity itself exists, simply because of our personal opinions, emotions, and desires. No one is looking for AI to replace people, not even the richest of the rich. We…ChatGPT9 min readChatGPT9 min read
Published inTowards Dev·Apr 2Member-onlyWhy You Should Not Switch to TypeScriptPlease note that in this article, when I refer to switching, I mean switching from JavaScript. Topics such as WebAssembly or languages like Kotlin are outside the scope of this article. To be honest, I can only see one reason not to use TypeScript: the inability to commit to a…Software Development4 min readSoftware Development4 min read
Published inApprentice diary·Mar 30Member-onlyOne Month of My Apprentice’s JourneyWell, it is not actually a Month. It’s been years now… though it doesn’t feel like all those years were as productive compared to just this one month. By one month, I mean 30 days since I started logging it; taking actions, tracking those actions, and reflecting. As I already…Self Improvement4 min readSelf Improvement4 min read
Published inTowards Dev·Mar 28Member-onlyWhy the Rust Community Should Be Worried About the New Carbon LanguageThere are three types of developers: Those who do not care about specific languages and just use whatever tool gets the job done. Those who are really passionate about a particular language and will try to solve a problem with it, even if there are better options. Those who have an interest in a language because…Rust5 min readRust5 min read
Published inFlutter Community·Mar 23Member-onlyRunning Flutter on Raspberry Pi 4Let me clarify right away: this is not a tutorial on how to run Flutter on Raspberry Pi, since the process was really smooth with the available documentation. I had an idea for an IoT device with a user interface, and that’s why Flutter, in my opinion, could be a…Flutter5 min readFlutter5 min read
