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Am I wrong in thinking that Dart VM on Android is the only other VM that has been officially released by Google ? Doesnt that make for a pretty strong statemen

• shadowmint 11y ago
  No. This isn't the same thing at all. The C# runtime on android is used by thousands of apps; this is simply a dart runtime that runs on android. This is a cool project; and its great to see people trying to do interesting things with dart; Dart as it currently stands is a total and abject failure in all of its goals as a replacement for javascript. New goals for it to live as a mobile platform might give it a breath of fresh air. Pretty nice to see; it's a nice language with a good ecosystem, if it gains traction as a 'app' language, it could go places. ...but this is absolutely not Google saying 'the future of android is dart'.
  • afsina 11y ago
    >this is simply a dart runtime that runs on android. User facing side of the framework is written in Dart. That means something.
    • shadowmint 11y ago
      Not really. The User facing side of unity is written in C#. /me spins finger in the air... This is like any other 'insert language here' mobile runtime with native bindings to the mobile apis (eg. camera, etc) and its own widget library. Unity and kivy spring immediately to mind as examples of other ones. Hardly revolutionary.
• kibwen 11y ago
  Google is notorious for officially funding multiple competing solutions to every problem under the sun. I'm not trying to discount how important this is for Dart, but this announcement here doesn't carry even a thousandth of the heft as e.g. Apple's support for Swift over Obj-C.
• lern_too_spel 11y ago
  Yes, that is wrong. They have also released V8.