Dart is not the first language with that mistake, but it’s newer. It shouldn’t have repeated this mistake.
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What do you mean @DevotionGeo - do you have an example?
I also added the ‘rant’ tag to your thread (have a look at what it looks like on the frontpage 
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I love the icon for ‘rant’! 
For example the following:
Look at the capital S in string (type).
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I’ve asked a friend about this on Twitter (who is a Google Developer Expert for Flutter) and this is what he had to say:
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As does Scala: every type is capitalized.
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Inheriting mistakes from other languages is so common. Null is a classic example of languages inheriting the mistake all the way back from Algol that even the creator of it admitted was his biggest mistake.
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Me …
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I never used Dart, but I dislike inconsistency, so I’d hate typing String instead of string if everything else is lowercase.
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The Twitter thread got a response from Vyacheslav Egorov, who is leading the Dart “ahead of time”- and “just in time”-compilation development at google.
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