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This comment is taking me off the ledge on Dart a bit. I really felt doom and gloom over the announcement but this makes sense. I hope this happens. Javascript
by myko 12y ago
This comment is taking me off the ledge on Dart a bit. I really felt doom and gloom over the announcement but this makes sense.
I hope this happens. Javascript seems like a depressing future to me - even if it's only a compilation target for major shops.
- comex 12y agoTo me, "JavaScript and Dart" would also be a depressing future. You may hate JavaScript and like Dart, but there are a lot of people who hate both of them and would prefer CoffeeScript or Elm or purescript or JS+macros (sweet.js) or C# or C++ or ... IMO it is much better to focus on improving compile-to-web support with things like bytecode, better debugging, threading, custom value types, hooks into the garbage collector, etc., etc. - making it feel more like "compilation", less like "transpilation" (to the extent the term implies that you have to look at the output) - than to change the number of blessed languages from one to two. The result, if used to compile Dart (or any other language), might sacrifice a bit of performance compared to the maximum achievable by a dedicated Dart VM, but not that much, and there are myriad advantages.
- myko 12y agoReally I wish Dart VM were, like the JVM, made to be a platform to be built upon instead of a VM for a single language. But in the meantime I'd prefer Dart to JS.