Dart is a general-purpose, high-level modern programming language which is originally developed by Google. It is the new programming language which is emerged in 2011, but its stable version was released in June 2017. Dart is not so popular at that time, but It gains popularity when it is used by the Flutter.
Dart is a dynamic, class-based, object-oriented programming language with closure and lexical scope. Syntactically, it is quite similar to Java, C, and JavaScript. If you know any of these programming languages, you can easily learn the Dart programming language.
Dart is an open-source programming language which is widely used to develop the mobile application, modern web-applications, desktop application, and the Internet of Things (IoT) using by Flutter framework. It also supports a few advance concepts such as interfaces, mixins, abstract classes, refield generics, and type interface. It is a compiled language and supports two types of compilation techniques.
- AOT (Ahead of Time) – It converts the Dart code in the optimized JavaScript code with the help of the dar2js compiler and runs on all modern web-browser. It compiles the code at build time.
- JOT (Just-In-Time) – It converts the byte code in the machine code (native code), but only code that is necessary.