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Give Dart a try. It has a single dependency management tool (pub), support for Angular 2, and is generally a joy to use. Material widgets for Angular 2 (the s

Give Dart a try. It has a single dependency management tool (pub), support for Angular 2, and is generally a joy to use. Material widgets for Angular 2 (the same ones Google uses internally to build Adwords) are expected to be announced at the Dart summit in October.

nekitamo 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the majority of the Adwords frontend is still written in GWT?
- rpeden 10y ago
  It appears that the new version of the new AdWords UI is created using Dart and Angular 2: http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dart-we-asked.html http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dar... I'm not a heavy AdWords user, so I can't say for certain that this represents all of the AdWords UI. But based on the linked interview, it sounds like they replaced a lot of GWT with Angular.
- wstrange 10y ago
  The new Adwords is built with Dart. Source: http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dart-we-asked.html http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dar...
devsquid 10y ago
Gotta say its pretty awesome! I can do a whole fully functional web app in about a 80kbs JS library(including embedded HTML for fast loading of different views). The sweet thing about Dart is you don't need libraries like Angular or JQuery. I just use the built in Dart HTML methods and they compile down to vanilla JS.
EugeneOZ 10y ago
JSON support is awful, "optional types" means "no types". Thanks, but even TS is better.
- wstrange 10y ago
  > "optional types" means "no types" While it is possible to write Dart code without using types (hence "optional") - the vast majority of Dart code is written using types. The new Dart compiler also provides a "strong mode" which enforces strong typing in order to generate cleaner Javascript code.
- SureshG 10y ago
  Enable strong mode. It's pretty neat - https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler/blob/master/doc/STATIC_SAFETY.md https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler/blob/master/doc/ST...

nekitamo 10y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the majority of the Adwords frontend is still written in GWT?

rpeden 10y ago
It appears that the new version of the new AdWords UI is created using Dart and Angular 2: http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dart-we-asked.html http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dar... I'm not a heavy AdWords user, so I can't say for certain that this represents all of the AdWords UI. But based on the linked interview, it sounds like they replaced a lot of GWT with Angular.
wstrange 10y ago
The new Adwords is built with Dart. Source: http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dart-we-asked.html http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dar...

devsquid 10y ago

Gotta say its pretty awesome! I can do a whole fully functional web app in about a 80kbs JS library(including embedded HTML for fast loading of different views). The sweet thing about Dart is you don't need libraries like Angular or JQuery. I just use the built in Dart HTML methods and they compile down to vanilla JS.

EugeneOZ 10y ago

JSON support is awful, "optional types" means "no types". Thanks, but even TS is better.

wstrange 10y ago
> "optional types" means "no types" While it is possible to write Dart code without using types (hence "optional") - the vast majority of Dart code is written using types. The new Dart compiler also provides a "strong mode" which enforces strong typing in order to generate cleaner Javascript code.
SureshG 10y ago
Enable strong mode. It's pretty neat - https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler/blob/master/doc/STATIC_SAFETY.md https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler/blob/master/doc/ST...