Thanks for sharing, @pvg!
I messed up and didn’t check whether there’s already a similar thread before posting this one. And of course there is. You might want to move your post over there.
Ain’t that the truth. I periodically have to be reminded that some of the things I take for granted in Dart just aren’t there in other languages. And I don’t mean features so much as stuff like consistency.
Your note about “something in between” is, imho, a good topic for a whole separate thread! How can we make Dart a better programming language for games? (And I don’t mean the semantics and syntax of the language, necessarily, but the ecosystem and the available libraries.)