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Is it just me or is having the text "Due to the fact that JavaScript’s browser monopoly is hopefully coming to an end very soon," link to Dart kind of contradic

Is it just me or is having the text "Due to the fact that JavaScript’s browser monopoly is hopefully coming to an end very soon," link to Dart kind of contradictory? Since Dart just compiles to JS anyways.

kenny_r 12y ago
Compiling to Javascript is the way Dart solves its chicken-or-egg problem. Chrome ships a Dart VM and hopefully Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft will follow suit one day.
- agmcleod 12y ago
  Ahhh that's right, I forgot about the Dart VM. Thanks
- robin_reala 12y ago
  Chrome doesn’t ship a Dart VM does it? The closest you can get currently is a Dart-enabled special build of Chromium I believe.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Chrome ships a Dart VM Google ships a special Dart-enabled version of Chromium (Dartium) with the Dart SDK. Chrome, however, does not currently ship (with) a Dart VM.
  - kenny_r 12y ago
    I stand corrected.
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kolme 12y ago
Native support was planned for Chrome. The other browsers won't implement it, never ever, for strategic reasons. [1] So no, I don't think it's going to happen. That alone discredited the article a bit. How can one be so confident of something that is highly improbable? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28programming_language%29#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28programming_language%2...
- enyo 12y ago
  In all fairness, I stated "hopefully". I agree that it is more wishful thinking than reality. It just seemed strange to me to call "BrowserScript" JavaScript, since it should not be limited to JavaScript in my opinion. I will probably remove that statement though, since a lot of people seem to have extremely strong feelings about that, and are distracted from what this article is actually about.
  - jessaustin 12y ago
    Haha I just noticed TFA in my RSS reader 8 days late, and have been thoroughly confused by the majority of comments here.
Svip 12y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but in fact Dart intents to replace JavaScript as a language. Dartium (based on Chromium) can run Dart scripts natively. Why it isn't included in Chromium or Chrome, I don't know, but they claim Dart isn't finished yet, so it would be too early. But if Google don't in some form exercise their dominance, then people won't be changing from JavaScript to Dart any time soon.

kenny_r 12y ago

Compiling to Javascript is the way Dart solves its chicken-or-egg problem. Chrome ships a Dart VM and hopefully Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft will follow suit one day.

agmcleod 12y ago
Ahhh that's right, I forgot about the Dart VM. Thanks
robin_reala 12y ago
Chrome doesn’t ship a Dart VM does it? The closest you can get currently is a Dart-enabled special build of Chromium I believe.
dragonwriter 12y ago
> Chrome ships a Dart VM Google ships a special Dart-enabled version of Chromium (Dartium) with the Dart SDK. Chrome, however, does not currently ship (with) a Dart VM.
- kenny_r 12y ago
  I stand corrected.

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kolme 12y ago

Native support was planned for Chrome. The other browsers won't implement it, never ever, for strategic reasons. [1] So no, I don't think it's going to happen. That alone discredited the article a bit. How can one be so confident of something that is highly improbable? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28programming_language%29#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28programming_language%2...

enyo 12y ago
In all fairness, I stated "hopefully". I agree that it is more wishful thinking than reality. It just seemed strange to me to call "BrowserScript" JavaScript, since it should not be limited to JavaScript in my opinion. I will probably remove that statement though, since a lot of people seem to have extremely strong feelings about that, and are distracted from what this article is actually about.
- jessaustin 12y ago
  Haha I just noticed TFA in my RSS reader 8 days late, and have been thoroughly confused by the majority of comments here.

Svip 12y ago

I agree with the sentiment, but in fact Dart intents to replace JavaScript as a language. Dartium (based on Chromium) can run Dart scripts natively. Why it isn't included in Chromium or Chrome, I don't know, but they claim Dart isn't finished yet, so it would be too early. But if Google don't in some form exercise their dominance, then people won't be changing from JavaScript to Dart any time soon.