Dart 3 Released!

[ellery]

Dart 3 Released!

Dart 3 is released with new flutter version.

Quick overview

• Flutter at Google I/O 2023 in 5 minutes: Flutter at Google I/O 2023 in 5 minutes - YouTube
• Dart new feature blog post: Announcing Dart 3. 100% sound null safety. Records… | by Michael Thomsen | Dart | May, 2023 | Medium
• Flutter new feature blog post: Racing Forward at I/O 2023 with Flutter and Dart | by Tim Sneath | Flutter | May, 2023 | Medium
• The greatest feature of Dart 3 would be 100% sound null safety, record, patterns and class modifier. See the codelab to cover the new feature: Dive into Dart's patterns and records  |  Google Codelabs
• Records doc: Records | Dart
• Patterns doc: Patterns | Dart
• Class modifiers doc: Class modifiers | Dart

In depth feature specification

• Records: language/records-feature-specification.md at main · dart-lang/language · GitHub
• Patterns: language/feature-specification.md at main · dart-lang/language · GitHub
• Class modifiers: language/feature-specification.md at main · dart-lang/language · GitHub

Other interesting stuff

• A new card game made by Flutter team utilizing large language model: Flutter | I/O FLIP
• Experimental support for WebAssembly: Support for WebAssembly (Wasm) | Flutter

[suragch]

Great links! Thank you! I’ll definitely refer back to this as we get started on the Dart Apprentice books update.

If you have an opinion, at what point in the books would you introduce records, patterns and class modifiers?

[ellery]

I have already written some opinions about these in separate post. It takes a long time to read the doc though. Hope that you can simplify the concept for the readers in your book.