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Documentation starts with 'download dart and eclipse' and continues from there. Have you read it?

npm is an ecosystem as well as a software tool, and pub is too. pub is tiny compared to npm.

Yes, braces are redundant in most cases too and can lead to errors where code looks different from how it executes. Main is also unnecessary, but I've been told the dart docs include it without needing to. Not having a default return type is a waste of programmers time, to return void, don't return anything. All these things reduce signal/noise when reading dart.

If you don't think extra tokens mean extra work I welcome you to do some testing and get numbers to prove it.

Python 1 got pretty popular in Unix circles immediately: everyone could see it was better than Perl for most purposes. The cleanliness of the language made people overlook PyPI being, at the time, so poor compared to CPAN.




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