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I would say that the best benefits are:

- Cross Compilation (even wasm and js) out of the box - Simple concurrency model, similar to NodeJS - Ability to use it on a popular cross platform framework (flutter) - Hot reload capibilities (has JIT and AOT mode) - Strong developer tool chain

All of these are built on top of a language that has a pretty syntax and supports many language paradigms.

The biggest con is the (weak) package ecosystem and community.

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I think it's also important generally speaking - not just Dart/Flutter, but really any language ecosystem, to not blindly start adding packages. You'll end up with conflicts and Dart is no exception. Sometimes it is sensible to vendor a library into your own source code tree, or just build it yourself ("Own it").

When making bullet points, I think you have to add a empty line in-between each point so it gets rendered as a list

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