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Dart seems interesting, but its sponsorship by Google creates a major problem - what incentive does Microsoft, Mozilla, or Apple have to implement Dart support
by Bahamut 13y ago
Dart seems interesting, but its sponsorship by Google creates a major problem - what incentive does Microsoft, Mozilla, or Apple have to implement Dart support in their browsers? What about JavaScript devs who choose not to support Dart (especially since many still have to support even as far back as IE8 due to enterprise/companies/organizations/schools that opt for long-term support solutions for software)? I don't think good answers are available to these questions, which makes me hesitant to jump in as quickly.
- klodolph 13y agoDart also compiles to JavaScript, and was designed to do so from the very beginning.
- Bahamut 13y agoIt adds complexity to the dev process, and I'm not sure of the benefits of said complexity. The devs still at the core need to understand JavaScript it seems like.
- chrisbuc 13y ago> The devs still at the core need to understand JavaScript it seems like. No, that's not the case. You need to understand the browser DOM, and the various APIs available to you, but these are presented by Dart libraries. If you have knowledge of Java or C#, then that knowledge will be useful, and if you have knowledge of JavaScript's functional elements, then that is also useful, but none of that is mandatory to be effective with Dart.
- Bahamut 13y agoBut if you're using third party JS libraries and want to integrate with a Dart app? Seems necessary to still have to understand JS to integrate properly since you still have to know how those libraries' API works.
- sigzero 13y agoMaybe a first step into getting some type of vm into the browser that is performant and allows multiple languages to run against it like the JVM?