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Since when was eclipse the same as the java language? That analogy seems almost like a deliberate misdirection - do you really mean it? Your TLDR says it all -
by embolism 13y ago
Since when was eclipse the same as the java language? That analogy seems almost like a deliberate misdirection - do you really mean it?
Your TLDR says it all - you tell us to look at Dart as if it were some disembodied platonic entity independent of the goals of the corporation that controls it.
But Dart isn't independent of Google, so can you explain why we should limit our thinking like this?
- FeloniousHam 13y agoEclipse is a tool that was wholly developed by IBM before it was spun off as an independent foundation. Even then, IBM was the largest contributor to its development. Regardless of the fact that IBM was using Eclipse to advance its corporate interests (to provide a tool suite to replace Visual Age and support Websphere), the IDE is still useful. You see, it's possible to separate the product from its origin. A language has even less to do with advancing corporate interests (other than Google's professed goal to "make the web faster"), since it's an agnostic platform rather than a product designed to further a specific goal.