Dart Team Updates, April 17 - 30

[Anders Sandholm]

Dart libraries: dart:io

• DNS lookup

• IPv6 support

• Upgrade sockets to secure sockets

• Access to the PID (both for current process and the spawned processes)

dart2js Compiler

• Added support for new function subtyping rules.

• Reduced the amount of patching we do on native prototype objects to a single property.

• Improved indexing operations on native indexable types like typed data lists.

• Landed support for rethrow and treating throw as an expression.

• Reduced code size by sharing code in mixins between all classes that mix it in.

• Improved our simple type inferrer to produce better types.

Dartium

• Greatly improved WebGL performance by using dart:typed_data for typed arrays.

• Following up with Blink impact

• Various bugfixes

Pub

• Ship pub as a snapshot in the SDK

• Use backjumping constraint solver to resolve dependency graphs

• Select appropriate versions of packages to work with the user’s SDK

Dart Web UI

• Implementing MDV v2 DOM APIs in dart:html

Dart Dev Rel

• More cookbook recipes

• dartlang.org works again on phone/tablet

• Dart Up and Running is updated to M4

• Published Lang Spec M4

• Dart Tutorials now getting the CI love on drone.io

• Dart Tutorials now has a deployment script (thanks to Adam Singer!)

• Lots of prep for Google I/O

• api.dartlang.org now faster thanks to Page Speed Service

• Continued work on Sublime plugin, including integration with analyzer

• New Article: Creating Streams

  
  

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Anders Thorhauge Sandholm | Product Manager |

Google Denmark ApS | CVR nr. 28 86 69 84 |

Aabogade 15 | 8200 Aarhus N | Denmark

[Jos Hirth]

api.dartlang.org now faster thanks to Page Speed Service

That's a bit of an understatement. It lost about 80% in weight. It's drastically faster now. :)