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dart2js is a very small sliver of what Dart is.

• cwyers 9y ago
  The original Dart announcement was a presentation entitled "Dart: A Structured Web Programming Language." Dart has evolved beyond that mostly by necessity; people weren't adopting it for web programming, and so if it was going to survive, it needed to adapt. http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-aarhus-2011/slides/GiladBracha_and_LarsBak_OpeningKeynoteDartANewProgrammingLanguageForStructuredWebProgramming.pdf http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-aarhus-2011/slides/GiladBracha_an...
  • nevir 9y ago
    Right, but that legacy isn't a great reason to hate on what Dart is now
    • cwyers 9y ago
      Programming languages have killer apps that define how people engage with them. Perl was "instead of using shell scripts with sed/awk you can use a 'real' programming language." Java was "here's C without so many footguns." C# was "here's Java without having to deal with Sun/Oracle." Dart was supposed to have a killer app around web development and didn't make it. Even something like Flutter has incremental improvements over stuff like React Native, Xamarin Forms and other cross-platform UI toolkits. There's still no killer app there.