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Based on the authors, my guess is a Smalltalk-ish interpreted lang for Web programming, which runs on V8? So a higher-level compliment to Go. Sounds promising
by alexatkeplar 15y ago
Based on the authors, my guess is a Smalltalk-ish interpreted lang for Web programming, which runs on V8? So a higher-level compliment to Go.
Sounds promising - will be interesting to compare to Io/Ioke/Seph...
- cdleary_ 15y ago> a Smalltalk-ish interpreted lang for Web programming In what practical sense would that differ from JS?
- michaelcampbell 15y agoIt would be something other than JS... ;-) Your point is well taken; I know some who hate JS because, well, it's JS. I doubt Google is trying to cater to THAT crowd as such, but if Gilad Bracha is involved in it I think it will at least be worth looking at.
- jurjenh 15y agoMaybe in much the same way as CoffeeScript differs from JS. It doesn't need to be that much different to be better. Of course this depends on how you define "better" and "different."
- drothlis 15y agoMaybe it's about more than just the language. Have you actually seen a Smalltalk development environment? (e.g. http://vimeo.com/27850933 http://vimeo.com/27850933 ).
- katox 15y agoI wonder how many of (quite a few) unique newspeak features will Dart sport. My gut feelings are that Google will try to please mainstream instead. That'd be unfortunate but if things like no namespace or modularity were alike it'd be still cool as a wider scale experiment.