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I thought that the DX was rather poor last time I played with Dart (not Flutter). Package docs suck when it comes to describing a package’s API and types (not sure if this is the package’s fault but I was expecting Go-like docs). I expected better from a typed language.

I also didn’t have a nice time with the package manager. I had to manually create the pubspec.yml file to even start installing packages.

Maybe I missed some crucial docs, but I was rather annoyed throughout the whole experience.

What does it offer that Typescript doesn't?

Compiled performance

Given the javascript frameworks we run these days apparently that isn't an issue.

Or it is an issue and why everyone is moving to compiled languages for JS tooling, like Turbopack announced yesterday as a Webpack alternative written in Rust, to join other tooling such as esbuild, SWC, and Rome.

Typescript is another amazing language. They don’t compete.

But not in a more meaningful way than TypeScript which has the advantage of being a superset of JavaScript.