What are futures in programming?

In computer science, future, promise, delay, and deferred refer to constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages . They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the computation of its value is not yet complete.

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How do you deal with Future in Flutter?

Sometimes you don’t want to turn the function into a Future or mark it async, so the other way to handle a Future is by using the . then function . It takes in a function that will be called with the value type of your Future. It’s similar to a Promise in JavaScript without the resolve, reject explicitness.

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