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Go's been out 4 years while Dart just hit 1.0 and requires a runtime as it's a bit less portable. Once Dart lands in Chrome, I can easily imagine it becoming th

Go's been out 4 years while Dart just hit 1.0 and requires a runtime as it's a bit less portable. Once Dart lands in Chrome, I can easily imagine it becoming the first choice of developers who prefer to develop code in their browser. A niche market now, but interesting to contemplate. I'm a bit more flexible when it comes to trying to predict the future than my posts indicate. I'm just offering an alternative hypothesis: Dart has many more screencasts and supported libraries from Google, including Angular.dart than Golang ever had, and it's only just hit 1.0. Golang has been fantastic for me to develop with, particularly on Google AppEngine and it's true Dart hasn't hit server-side popularity yet. But if we're predicting the future, based on JS and node.is alone, I'd suggest Dart has plenty of room to gain popularity quickly.

jerf 13y ago
Oh, I see, that makes sense. For me, I was making broad predictions. No matter how exciting the web client dev is, it is and will remain still a niche, and Dart faces a huge challenge in the next 5 years as asm.js will relatively suddenly introduce it to competition from every other mainstream language in existence. Dart probably won't "die" for a while, but I'm not sure it won't end up "just another" one of the enormous pile of languages that it will be possible to do client-side programming in.
- lstamour 13y ago
  I've learned to not bet against the ingenuity of Google engineers, particularly those building web browsers and development tools. :) Given that they've added very basic support for editing to Developer Tools in Chrome already, once Dart lands in Chrome, I could see a push to make Chrome the editor-of-choice for Dart, if not web-based editors in general. And it's true, there's more to development than type-and-run interactive shells, but that sure makes web development easier, doesn't it? asm.js benefits Dart as well, since they can target the same approaches for their JS target code gen. The real question is when will Google add development alternatives to Android? Chrome's nice, but it takes a mobile platform to sustain an ecosystem of client-side developers these days. Perhaps Chrome-on-Android will eventually become the new PhoneGap?

jerf 13y ago

Oh, I see, that makes sense. For me, I was making broad predictions. No matter how exciting the web client dev is, it is and will remain still a niche, and Dart faces a huge challenge in the next 5 years as asm.js will relatively suddenly introduce it to competition from every other mainstream language in existence. Dart probably won't "die" for a while, but I'm not sure it won't end up "just another" one of the enormous pile of languages that it will be possible to do client-side programming in.

lstamour 13y ago
I've learned to not bet against the ingenuity of Google engineers, particularly those building web browsers and development tools. :) Given that they've added very basic support for editing to Developer Tools in Chrome already, once Dart lands in Chrome, I could see a push to make Chrome the editor-of-choice for Dart, if not web-based editors in general. And it's true, there's more to development than type-and-run interactive shells, but that sure makes web development easier, doesn't it? asm.js benefits Dart as well, since they can target the same approaches for their JS target code gen. The real question is when will Google add development alternatives to Android? Chrome's nice, but it takes a mobile platform to sustain an ecosystem of client-side developers these days. Perhaps Chrome-on-Android will eventually become the new PhoneGap?