I think that the best investment today for any Web developer is to start learning Dart. Why?
As a developer and a university professor, for the first time in my long career, I can do the following with Dart:
I can use Dart both on the client and on the server;
I can apply both object-oriented and functional way of programming;
I can develop in Dart and deploy applications in JavaScript;
I can be a productive developer with many Dart tools and libraries, and get a very good performance in either Dart applications or their JavaScript versions;
I can start developing a prototype without data types and introduce them when I need to convert the prototype to a deployable application;
I can use Dart for both synchronous and asynchronous programming;
I can use many publicly available packages and reuse their libraries;
I can be a web engineer on the client-side and a software engineer on the server-side, with the same language and many reusable libraries.
I do not work at Google and yes, I love Dart. By following Seth's work for two years and a half, it is obvious to me that he loves Dart.
Why do I love Dart? As a developer and a university professor, for the first time in my long career, I can do the following with Dart:
I can use Dart both on the client and on the server;
with Dart, I can apply both object-oriented and functional way of programming.
I can develop in Dart and deploy applications in JavaScript.
I can be a productive developer with many Dart tools and libraries, and get a very good performance in either Dart applications or their JavaScript versions.
I can start developing a prototype without data types and introduce them when I need to convert the prototype to a deployable application.
I can use Dart for both synchronous and asynchronous programming.
I can use many publicly available packages and reuse their libraries.
I can be a web engineer on the client-side and a software engineer on the server-side, with the same language and many reusable libraries.
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