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Politics aside, I find it interesting Dart isn't getting much traction at this point. It seems it should be in a similar position to Java during the first wave,
by fidotron 13y ago
Politics aside, I find it interesting Dart isn't getting much traction at this point. It seems it should be in a similar position to Java during the first wave, but it clearly isn't.
By itself it's clearly not bad, it's just not better enough than what is there already to suffer the inter-ecosystem pain with native JS. Since it can't do anything JS can't the only selling point it really has is to build large JS systems in some other safer language, but we've been there before with GWT, and that didn't set the world on fire either.
- WoodenChair 13y agoI think it's still early days. There are large projects underway in Dart, like Spark. Once an app that everyone is using is written in Dart, I think it will spur further adoption. With that said, there has been clear growth - as an outsider not on the team, to me that growth looks linear rather than exponential, but it's steady and clearly there. Of course inclusion in Chrome or Android will mean sudden exponential growth perhaps.
- RamiK 13y agoJava (Vs. Visual C++) had the industry and Academia trying to break free from Microsoft's grip by going cross-platform and later in-browser. Dart just doesn't have that kind of driving force going for it.
- fidotron 13y agoTrue, I had missed that. Maybe it's that environments mean much more than languages, and with Java the JVM was the killer thing which dragged the language with it. Spark might be that killer platform for Dart, but it strikes me as wishful thinking, especially with players like github coming into that side of the market.