Same with Swift. It is one of my favorite features and one I miss most after moving mostly to React Native. I also love `guard` and `if let` in the same vein of boilerplate-reducing sugar.
Definitely. It's a shame that dart gets so much unwarranted hate. I mean, I also think it's an absolutely awful language but it's really proven to be a valuable source of data for what other programming languages should do and perhaps more importantly: not do. I really hope we see a lot more things like Dart, and not so much negativity.
We don't tend to have detailed roadmaps because it risks setting people up for disappointment when schedules change. But what's roughly happening right now is:
- Non-nullable types are well underway. All but a few corners of the design are pinned down, much of the static checking is implemented, the core libraries have been mostly migrated, and we're working through the runtime implementation, migration tests, etc.
- Next up after that, the current plan (which may change) is control over variance and stuff around pattern matching.
