In Dart, there’s a way to declare a lazy initialization of variables. This might be needed if the variable might not be needed and its the
initialization is costly. In such case lazy evaluations can reduce time/memory consumption. Another use case is an instance variable needs access to
this
and can’t be initialized on the way.
Sometimes, late
modifier is used to tell the compiler that a variable or field is non-nullable and will be initialized later. This is
needed when compiler failed to detect it during the control flow analysis.
In case of static and top-level variables, there’s no need to declare them late
, if they contain initialization. They are already
evaluated lazily, so late
is redundant.