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Few developers wanted either the language or the native support in browsers. Witness the success of e.g. TypeScript compared to Dart. There were plenty of issu
by pcwalton 10y ago
Few developers wanted either the language or the native support in browsers. Witness the success of e.g. TypeScript compared to Dart.
There were plenty of issues in the Dart language, too. The way generics variance was deliberately unsound was bizarre, in particular, and they resisted attempts to fix it.
- markdog12 10y agoAs I'm sure you're aware, the better language doesn't always win the popularity contest. Typescript, being a superset of js still has a lot of its warts. Dart is more of a clean break.