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So I started reading this small article (as a piece of opinion, not sure what to call it), and suddenly Touhou. Not something I expect in a rant about a program

by agapos 12y ago

So I started reading this small article (as a piece of opinion, not sure what to call it), and suddenly Touhou. Not something I expect in a rant about a programming language. But back on topic: I believe Dart was doomed to die as a JS replacement for the sole reason it was not the joint work of all mayor browser vendors, but an attempt of dominance of a single one.

nailer 12y ago
Agreed. - CoffeeScript came from the JS community (the author also writes underscore, the most popular JavaScript module) - Many frontend web developers are also Ruby or Python developers - Typescript came from Microsoft, who use it to do big apps like xbox music. Seperately, C# has beautiful ideas about inline-async via generators that are similar to yield in ES6. They get async, and Typescript is still more popular than Dart. - Although not browser/DOM related, Swift shows what Apple considers valuable in a language. - JavaScript now has the largest package manager of any programming language thanks to npm Whatever succeeds in replacing JavaScript should come from all of those. Dart had a great DOM API, but bared very little resemblance to the languages web developers actually prefer to use.
- xxgreg 12y ago
  > C# has beautiful ideas about inline-async via generators that are similar to yield in ES6 Dart also has async/await, and synchronous generators using yield.