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Why Generics Beat dynamic

Keep type safety while staying reusable.

The Reuse Problem

You often want one piece of code to work with many types. Writing a separate version for each type is tedious, so Dart gives you generics. 🎯

The dynamic Escape Hatch

One quick fix is to type everything as dynamic, which accepts any value. It feels flexible, but it quietly throws away all of Dart's type checking.

dynamic x = 5;
x = 'now a String';

All lessons in this course

  1. Why Generics Beat dynamic
  2. Generic Classes and Methods
  3. Bounded Type Parameters With extends
  4. Generic Collections in Practice
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