Why to use StringBuffer in Dart instead of Iterable.join?

Question

In Dart, you can concatenate Strings effectively by two ways: you can use StringBuffer class and then convert it to the String, or you can put all of your substrings into the List and then call join('') on them.

I do not understand, what are the pluses of the StringBuffer and why should I use it instead of joining List. Could someone please explain?

Answer 1

There isn't a big difference. If you already have a list of strings, there is no difference in using StringBuffer.writeAll or Iterable.join. The Iterable.join method uses a StringBuffer internaly:

String join([String separator = ""]) {
 StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
 buffer.writeAll(this, separator);
 return buffer.toString();
}

From the Dart documentation (click on the code button on the right).