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Dart 1.0 will be released pretty soon, as Lars & co, have said. It takes a long time to create a new language and core libraries from scratch. But I can't beli

Dart 1.0 will be released pretty soon, as Lars & co, have said. It takes a long time to create a new language and core libraries from scratch. But I can't believe you complain that it's not released yet, and that it doesn't have much traction in the same post... I think Dart adoption is going along just fine, considering it's pre-release state for the last two years. If too many people had already starting using it, they might have had unmeetable expectations about it's stability and readiness. Better that there are fewer early adopters who are aware of and willing to take the pain of the evolving platform.

coldtea 13y ago
>But I can't believe you complain that it's not released yet, and that it doesn't have much traction in the same post... Where's the contradiction? For one, other projects have gotten traction LONG before the stable release. Mongo and Node.js come to mind. Second, the complaint can be stated as: "If you want it to gain traction, why do you keep tinkering on it for such a long time without a stable release"?
- cromwellian 13y ago
  Damned if you do and damned if you don't. If they release it and iterate on it for years in the public before official release, you complain about adoption or lack of users. If they were to bake it internally first until it is stable and then release it "done", then everyone complains about a closed process. And do you have any numbers to compare Dart vs Typescript vs CoffeeScript adoption?
  - coldtea 13y ago
    >If they were to bake it internally first until it is stable and then release it "done", then everyone complains about a closed process Well, Go did just that, and I didn't see anyone complaining.