Dart News & Updates

Tickets (for free) are available for DartConf Los Angeles on January 23 & 24th! In addition to hearing about Dart 2.0, you might also enjoy: Access to Dart, Flutter, and AngularDart engineers via office hours and unconference rooms. In-depth talks about Dart, Flutter, and AngularDart, including how the latter two overlap. Practical guides for Dart, Flutter, and AngularDart developers. Insight into what the teams are working on and how it will affect your projects. You might also enjoy the average high temperatures in Los Angeles for January (68°F / 20°C). Learn more and sign up at events.dartlang.org . We hope to see you there!

We’re aflutter to announce the official Dart conference in Los Angeles on January 23-24, 2018. The event will be even bigger and better than last year, with exciting talks about Dart 2.0, Flutter, Dart Dev Compiler, AngularDart, and much more. UPDATE : Please learn more and register here . We’re moving the annual conference from October to January for two reasons: We want our speakers to be available for the other conferences that are happening in the Fall. Each year, September to November is full of events where the team can reach developers unaware of the awesomeness of all things Dart. Likewise, we don’t want you to have to choose between DartConf and other great events. Lots of new things are coming to Dart in the new year. Place: Google Los Angeles Time: January 23-24, 2018 Pre-registration: [CLICK HERE] The event will be live-streamed and sessions will be recorded. Ask questions at [email protected].

Devoxx 2013 is here, and Dart has a strong showing on Thursday, November 14th. Keynote with Lars Bak At 9:40am, Dart co-founder Lars Bak delivers the morning keynote titled " Shaping the Future of Web Development ". Q&A with the Dart Team At 1:10pm, representatives from the Dart team will take your questions in a "ask us anything" format. Bonus: we'll be playing buzzword bingo. Building a mobile, multi-player HTML5 game with Dart At 2:00pm, Seth Ladd presents a case study on his team's recent project to build a multi-player, multi-device, mobile-friendly, HTML5 game with Dart. Happy hour with Dart and Angular At 6:00pm, meet the Dart and Angular teams for a happy hour. We'll have food and drinks, and plenty of opportunity to chat with the engineers behind the projects. Visit the Google booth, or find a Dart or Angular engineer, to get a wristband (free while supplies last). Hope to see you there! Stop by and say Hi! ...

The fall conference season is starting, with Dart sessions in JavaScript, Java, and software conferences around the world. Some upcoming presentations: Blend , Oct 1-2, France Speaker: Sébastien Deleuze http://www.blendconference.com/schedule/le-langage-dart-le-futur-des-langages-de-programmation/ Softshake , Oct 24-25, Switzerland Speaker: Sébastien Deleuze http://soft-shake.ch/2013/program/sessions/13_web_dev/2013/10/24/7-Dart_one_language_to_rule_them_all.html GDG Seattle Devfest , Sept 27, Seattle, WA, USA Speaker: Emily Fortuna http://www.meetup.com/seattle-gdg/events/125948972/ JavaZone , Sept 11-12, Norway Speaker: Seth Ladd http://jz13.java.no/ dotJS , Dec 2, Paris, France Speaker: Lars Bak http://www.dotjs.eu/ JAZOON , Oct 22, Zurich Speaker: Paul Brauner http://jazoonvote.appspot.com/#/submissions/124 JAX , Oct 29, London Speaker: Chris Buckett http://jaxlondon.com/sessions/bringing-your-app-web-dart Devoxx , Nov 11-15, Belgium ...

High-fives to team GlassFrogger, who used  Dart and HTML5 to win the Breaking Glass hackathon on August 18th, 2013. They ported the classic arcade game Frogger to Google Glass and its embedded web browser. "A lot of this was discovery...we wanted to see what we could exploit without having to write a native app. How can we reuse our code? We can write this once and deploy it anywhere [with Dart and HTML5].", said Adam Singer, developer on GlassFrogger. Hop  on over to the  video  of the demo pitch and a bit of game play.  Engadget and Robert Scoble  covered the winners, and were impressed by the effort. The game , while not complete, was built entirely during the 48-hour hackathon. Luckily, the Dart code is  open source  and you can try it with or without glass (try spacebar to move forward, not sure there's a move backward yet. Did we mention it's open source?) The Dart app is compiled to JavaScript, so that it can run across Glass and...

Next week, Dart is going to be at the  GOTO Conference  in Aarhus, Denmark!  We have three Dart events this year. Dart User Group and Code Lab After an introduction to the language, we'll guide you through all the steps to create your first Dart application. The code lab was battle tested in June during Google I/O, and is ready to go. We'll lead you through the process of building a modern web app with the Dart platform, using both client-side and server-side Dart. You will explore the language, libraries, editor, and integration with Chromium. You'll leave this session with a working Dart app that works in modern browsers. Register now! Translating Dart to efficient JavaScript To make Dart run in all modern browsers, we have implemented an optimizing Dart-to-JavaScript compiler. Performance-wise the biggest challenge is the gap between the semantics of Dart's low-level operators and JavaScript's builtin primitives. This presentation will intro...

Posted by Seth Ladd You are invited to the worldwide Dart hackathon event . Be part of the next evolution of web programming and make an impact by hacking on Dart and sharing your feedback. Locations include: Silicon Valley Tel Aviv Israel Tokyo, Japan Seoul, Korea Prague, Czech Republic Chandigarh, Goa, and Karnataka, India London, England (coming soon) This hackathon is a fun way to try Dart. Even though Dart is still in technology preview, there's plenty of language, libraries, editor, and compiler to JavaScript for you to test and hack on. Register your team today!

Posted by Seth Ladd Learning Dart at the Sydney Google office On the night of Tuesday the 20th of March, the trusty crew of the Sydney GTUG gathered at the hallowed halls of the Sydney Googleplex to learn the ins and outs of the Dart programming language. Pizza was consumed, questions were asked, Dart Editors edited, and Dart compilers compiled. For two and a half hours, everyone was head down, tails up, giving this shiny new technology a very close inspection, and at the end of the night, everyone went home happy, having learned a new thing or two about this great new programming language! Thanks to Brett Morgan and the Syndey GTUG crew for hosting this Dart event. Want your Dart event advertised here? Drop us a line and we'll help get the word out!

Announcing Episode 2 of Dartisans Hangout On Air , this Wednesday 15th at 9am PST / 5pm GMT. This week, we're lucky to have  + Vijay Menon  and  + anton muhin  join us from the Dart team for a  special announcement . You won't want to miss this! As with all Hangout On Airs, we'll be broadcasting live for everyone to see. The broadcast should be recorded and posted to YouTube, fingers crossed! Please add your questions in the original post . See you Wednesday for the good news!

Posted by Seth Ladd Dart early adopter  Chris Buckett  will present Dart to the London AJAX Meetup on Tuesday, March 13. Chris will introduce Dart, its motivations, and answer some of the most common questions. Sounds like the London AJAX Meetup covers a broad set of technologies like rich internet apps, JavaScript, open source, and web development. We're happy to see them add Dart to the list of hot topics. Join Chris and the London AJAX Meetup group to learn more about Dart!

Posted by Seth Ladd Abdel Remani has kick started the Silicon Valley Dart Meetup ! Join your fellow Dartisans for this historical first meeting on February 29, 2012 at the Googleplex for a night of Dart. The inaugural meeting will feature two talks. First up is yours truly to give an introduction to Dart, its motivations, and its philosophy. The second talk will feature Adam Coding giving us a step-by-step code walk through of a simple client/server application written in Dart. There are limited slots, so please register today and let us know you're coming. We'll see you there!

Posted by Seth Ladd Last night, I presented an Introduction to Dart to a very fun and engaged crowd at the Seattle GTUG . Many thanks to Clive Boulton and Brandon Donnelson for organizing the event, and to Chris Wilson for hosting. The highlight of the evening was the creative and interactive Dart board, conceived and built by Brandon. The balloons are almost ready, covering the Dart board: After all the balloons are popped (with darts, of course!) we see key Dart phrases and quiz questions: Brandon captured lots of pics from the event. Thanks to everyone who came to the talk, there was a great energy, and insightful comments and questions. Slides for this talk, and others, are available at dartlang.org/slides/ .