15 engineers on Hacker News describe using Dart first-hand: 8 endorse it, 0 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“We run a monitoring agent on our servers, porting from dart to rust reduced memory from around 450MB to about 30MB”
mixed · production · bsutto · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In Dart, we moved to a sound static type system in 2.0, moved to non-nullable types in 2.13 (sound and defaulting to non-nullable!)”
endorse · production · munificent · 2023-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Recently I've been using Dart and Flutter. I can't complain at all.”
endorse · personal · account-5 · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've only been using Dart in this app (stack)”
endorse · personal · rubyn00bie · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it is a real pleasure to develop web frontends with Dart.”
endorse · production · gresrun · 2019-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Flutter for a little over a year and I absolutely love it. Hot reloading, Dart tree shaking...”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · dkobia · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to dart and programmers found it very similar and fun”
endorse · production · netdur · 2017-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've never been a more productive, happier programmer than when I'm using Dart.”
endorse · personal · thebosz · 2016-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Got two web apps in production - one of them >10K LOC... Dart makes me quite happy. Biggest flaw - it still has relatively small community/ecosystem”
mixed · production · tkubacki · 2014-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Dart since it was announced and the only downside I have experienced so far was that I had to rewrite half my code every two weeks as the language changed”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · jgon · 2013-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes we do use Web UI. It's awesome.”
endorse · production · tosh · 2013-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I grokked Flutter / Dart in a couple days in September.”
neutral · personal · christocracy · 2018-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I learnt Dart, and it was about 80% similar to the langs that I already know.”
neutral · production · 0.5 yr · nevi-me · 2018-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we actually have inlining annotations[1] which we use when writing tests.”
neutral · production · mraleph · 2014-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“[disclaimer: I work on the Dart VM]”
neutral · production · mraleph · 2012-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?