What does null safety mean?

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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Why is Dart late?

The late keyword It’s common to use late in combination with final , to defer the creation of read-only variables to when they are first read . By declaring a non-nullable late variable, we promise that it will be non-null at runtime, and Dart helps us with some compile-time guarantees.

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