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Dart had some other downsides, like you needed Java I think and many developers have an irrational disgust for Java(I hope I remember right) There are other la
by simion314 8y ago
Dart had some other downsides, like you needed Java I think and many developers have an irrational disgust for Java(I hope I remember right)
There are other languages pushed by a big corporation that fail so having the big corporation is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
- skybrian 8y agoThe syntax looks a bit like a cross between JavaScript and Java, but Dart isn't much at all like Java and doesn't depend on Java. But you might be remembering the old Dart IDE, which was based on Eclipse.
- simion314 8y agoI think I get confused, google had/has some transpilers/compiulers and other web tools that were based on Java and Java tooling.
- m_sahaf 8y agoYou were probably thinking of GWT and/or Closure-Compiler
- village-idiot 8y agoSide note: it really pisses me off that Google picks language and tool names that have really poor SEO and are often names for existing CS concepts. Go and Dart have terrible SEO, and Chrome and Closure already mean something in their fields. Drives me nuts.
- skybrian 8y agoWhen it was first announced, I complained about "Go" and someone said it provides an interesting challenge for the search engine team. (There are lots of synonyms.) I find that searching on "golang" generally does the trick.
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