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Dart Programming Language
allen:
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mouser:
I'm still looking for a nice meaty paper talking about the why of Dart and how it compares to js. The language spec doesn't help much and the online "articles" are not quite substantial enough.
40hz:
I'm still looking for a nice meaty paper talking about the why of Dart and how it compares to js. The language spec doesn't help much and the online "articles" are not quite substantial enough.
-mouser (October 11, 2011, 09:13 AM)
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+1. It's hard to justify the investment in time coming up to speed on a new language without some compelling technical reason to do so. Especially when there's enough "good enough" languages out there that offer better employment opportunities.
One thing Steve Jobs instinctively understood: It's not enough to be better. It has to be "insanely great" if your idea is bucking established products and standards. On this particular point I think he was 100% correct.
Right now JS, Python, and all the other web tools are good enough that I don't see anything in Dart that's promising enough return that I'd want to commit a large or production-level project to it.
I'm going to do a 'wait & see' on this one.
mahesh2k:
I think it's just the matter of time fanbois will pick this up like they did with AIR(different tech but same method of market penetration). Google knows how to play with standards and open source world, so forcing any technology using brand and the popularity is not that hard. Point is - "What's in it for me and the users" or is it just another shiny stuff ?
40hz:
All Google would need to do is build Dart support into Chrome and it would get immediate traction. If Dart lives up to expectations I'm guessing they probably will assuming they don't have it in beta already.
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