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Has Dart gained much traction? It doesn't seem like it's been picked up nearly as much as Go or AngularJS but I may just be looking in the wrong places.

Touche 13y ago
I think a better comparison would be TypeScript which is similar minus the alternate VM part. MS is very good about getting their developer community to use stuff that they officially support so I wouldn't be surprised of TS becomes the norm for the Visual Studio developer crowd.
- SmileyKeith 13y ago
  Interesting. Just to note I wasn't trying to compare Dart to Go and AngularJS past the point that they're maintained/created by Googlers.
afsina 13y ago
It is not even 1.0 yet.
- SmileyKeith 13y ago
  Even so if no one is interested to adopt it before, or even play with it (not saying this is true since this is what I was asking), I don't think the version number really matters.
nobodysfool 13y ago
You wouldn't have noticed, because you can compile to javascript. It would be in the same basket as Coffeescript but the integrated IDE had all kinds of problems until recently, so that was holding it back.
laughfactory 13y ago
In the strictest terms, I think you're right, but that's primarily just because it hasn't yet reached 1.0. Both Go and Angular have been 1.0+ for quite some time, so it's not really a fair comparison. While I'm impressed with Go, I personally find Dart far more accessible. Because of my Java background it makes a lot more intuitive sense, and its target user-group is web developers. Go has an immense amount of power for the same group, but unfortunately it's marketed as a system-level language (which I understand it does very well, but isn't of interest to me) and is similarly inaccessible. If Go focused more on presenting itself (particularly in the tutorials/learning aids area) as a language for web development, I think it'd stand an excellent chance of stealing market (and mind) share from Node, and possibly even Dart on the server-side. It's possible they will pursue this course in the future as it has become quite obvious that their intended user-group (C++/low-level guys) aren't generally that interested in a replacement language. Like many others who've kept Dart on their radar, I've been waiting to get serious about Dart until it stabilized at 1.0. Now that its 1.0 release is imminent, I'm likely to move into Dart in a big way. JS is fine and works very well for a lot of folks, but Dart is much more appealing (a lot more sane) to me. I suspect when it's been post-1.0 as long as Go and Angular it'll be as popular. In other words, give it a year or two.

Touche 13y ago

I think a better comparison would be TypeScript which is similar minus the alternate VM part. MS is very good about getting their developer community to use stuff that they officially support so I wouldn't be surprised of TS becomes the norm for the Visual Studio developer crowd.

SmileyKeith 13y ago
Interesting. Just to note I wasn't trying to compare Dart to Go and AngularJS past the point that they're maintained/created by Googlers.

afsina 13y ago

It is not even 1.0 yet.

SmileyKeith 13y ago
Even so if no one is interested to adopt it before, or even play with it (not saying this is true since this is what I was asking), I don't think the version number really matters.

nobodysfool 13y ago

You wouldn't have noticed, because you can compile to javascript. It would be in the same basket as Coffeescript but the integrated IDE had all kinds of problems until recently, so that was holding it back.

laughfactory 13y ago

In the strictest terms, I think you're right, but that's primarily just because it hasn't yet reached 1.0. Both Go and Angular have been 1.0+ for quite some time, so it's not really a fair comparison. While I'm impressed with Go, I personally find Dart far more accessible. Because of my Java background it makes a lot more intuitive sense, and its target user-group is web developers. Go has an immense amount of power for the same group, but unfortunately it's marketed as a system-level language (which I understand it does very well, but isn't of interest to me) and is similarly inaccessible. If Go focused more on presenting itself (particularly in the tutorials/learning aids area) as a language for web development, I think it'd stand an excellent chance of stealing market (and mind) share from Node, and possibly even Dart on the server-side. It's possible they will pursue this course in the future as it has become quite obvious that their intended user-group (C++/low-level guys) aren't generally that interested in a replacement language. Like many others who've kept Dart on their radar, I've been waiting to get serious about Dart until it stabilized at 1.0. Now that its 1.0 release is imminent, I'm likely to move into Dart in a big way. JS is fine and works very well for a lot of folks, but Dart is much more appealing (a lot more sane) to me. I suspect when it's been post-1.0 as long as Go and Angular it'll be as popular. In other words, give it a year or two.