Does Dart have null?

The Dart language now supports sound null safety ! When you opt into null safety, types in your code are non-nullable by default, meaning that variables can’t contain null unless you say they can. With null safety, your runtime null-dereference errors turn into edit-time analysis errors.

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What is the use of null safety?

For us, in the context of null safety, that means that if an expression has a static type that does not permit null , then no possible execution of that expression can ever evaluate to null . The language provides this guarantee mostly through static checks, but there can be some runtime checks involved too.

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