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So what does influence take-up? And does Dart have it?

• sambeau 15y ago
  I dunno, something like: * The backing of the largest web company in the world. or * Inclusion in the second-most popular browser in the world. Yep. That aught to do it.
  • guard-of-terra 15y ago
    VBScript had both (actually the browser was the most popular), and look how far it went.
    • afsina 15y ago
      it only worked in IE and Windows.
    • sambeau 15y ago
      True, but times were different. Microsoft was being evil in the browser wars, being a monopolist and pissing off the hacker community: just the people you need for a new tech like this to take off.
    • mdaniel 15y ago
      One can also argue that VBScript is not tooling-friendly. I am talking a little out of school, since I have never had to use VB.net; it could be wholly different. But I have had my fair share of VBScript interactions and those were not fun (Microsoft-isms aside).
    • flomo 15y ago
      VBScript was one of the most popular server-side scripting languages in the late 90s. If they had a JavaScript translator, MS developers would have used it.