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Dart is indeed a cool language but there was a huge resentment when the Dart VM was about to be shipped with Chrome and create a Google only web. It's a great b
by tangue 9y ago
Dart is indeed a cool language but there was a huge resentment when the Dart VM was about to be shipped with Chrome and create a Google only web. It's a great burden for the language, I hope it could succeed without being put under our throats.
- coldtea 9y agoActually I would have been very glad if other vendors adopted the Dart VM, and we got a new fucking web language to eventually replace (or supplement) JS, instead of the pile of hacks we got.
- stefano 9y agoWe got WASM instead, which I'd argue is much better than support for a specific language, which would lock you in and prevent you from taking advantage of new programming language research.
- coldtea 9y agoAt the moment (and for the next 5 years I think) WASM is just a way to write code you'd write in C/C++. Not some support for other languages on a first class basis on the webpage just like Javascript (which direct access to the DOM and everything).
- pcwalton 9y agoDart had a lot of problems, most notably that GC between JS and Dart was never handled well, because the Dart VM and V8 used separate garbage collectors. Besides, I'd much rather have the effort go into one new VM (or VM "mode"), so we can solve the problem once and for all. That is, let's have Web Assembly.