Google Dart -- what does everyone think?
Google has released some of the pertinent details behind Dart, their new and improved web language. This will clearly be a years long process, but how is the web reacting to it right out of the gate..
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Google has released an early version of Dart, a new programming language designed to take some of the pain out of developing applications for the Web. But while it’s an evolutionary improvement on JavaScript, Dart faces a hard uphill battle for acceptance. -
Dart is the JavaScript I’ve always wanted
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Cross-posted on the Google Code BlogToday we are introducing an early preview of Dart, a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications. Dart’s design goals are:
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Google Dart feels like the Mom Jeans of programming languages.
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The moment you’ve been waiting for … “Hello World” in Dart, compiled to JavaScript: http://t.co/A0z0LxA7
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Holy shit! The 17 line Dart “Hello World” example compiles to 17,260 lines of JS. Wow, just wow. http://t.co/VqEch6YJ /via @jashkenas
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To be fair, if you compile that “Hello World” #Dart example with –optimize, it is 28k instead of > 500k https://gist.github.com/1277306
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Dart looks like yet another language designed to please the machine, not the programmer.
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Given the background of Lars Bak, the Google engineer whose V8 JavaScript interpreter upended Firefox’s claim on speed, it was reasonable to suspect Google’s new Web development language might look a lot like Smalltalk. But that might have taken the Web in a strange and different direction. -
Roy looks like a well-thought-out alternative to Dart: http://t.co/EmvrgqkT
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Developer reaction to Google’s Dart? A resounding ‘meh’. http://functionsource.com/post/dart-aims-at-the-web
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Due of lack of enthusiasm from user Google is launch Dart++ tomorrow.
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Dart is to JavaScript as Google Wave is to email.
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I nominate the Dart Language Spec for Pompous Asshole Award: “We support F-bounded quantification (if you dont know what it is, dont ask)”
