Chapter 14Futures and Isolates

In addition to the familiar syntax and concepts that Dart supports, there are a number of higher-level functional programming features that include the likes of completers, futures, and isolates. We have already seen futures a bit in the context of streams, but they are worth touching on by themselves. Futures play a big role in isolates, which use them to facilitate communication between currently executing functions.

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