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by sethladd 14y ago
(disclaimer: I work on the Dart team) Good question! The language does not anticipate backwards breaking changes (modulo any bugs we find in the spec), though we expect to add features like mixins. The libraries are going through changes no
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by sethladd 14y ago
This answer might help: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/164273/does-d... Also, performance is looking good: https://www.dartlang.org/performance/
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by sethladd 14y ago
I also wrote this response a while ago, which has additional details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4530903
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by sethladd 14y ago
You might be interest in Portable NaCL (aka PNaCL). http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl
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by sethladd 14y ago
OK, I'll bite. In what ways does Dart reek of Java? * Dart has top-level variables and functions, Java does not. * Dart has optional static types, Java does not. * Dart programs start at main(), Java does not (see static initializers) * Dar
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Dart myths debunked(blog.sethladd.com)
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by sethladd 14y ago
One of Dart's goals is to become a compelling and useful option for developers of many backgrounds to write awesome modern web apps. Compiling to JavaScript is crucial, as JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web. Embedding a Dart VM into
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by sethladd 14y ago
This is true, and a known bug: http://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=1533
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by sethladd 14y ago
The original post was about a "slightly better java", so you're right, I tried to enumerate some features that might be interesting to a Java developer. I really don't like X vs Y stuff (too many subtle and contextual issues), so I'm just t
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> ActionScript From my understanding, ActionScript is a gradually typed language. Contrast with Dart, which is optionally typed. In Dart, static type annotations do not affect the runtime semantics of the code. In ActionScript, the type
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If Dart, at first blush, looks familiar, then we've done our job. :) We freely admit that our job was not to make the world's most pure or esoteric language. Dart is a tool to get real jobs done and to be easy to use for a wide range of dev
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What Dart wants(blog.sethladd.com)
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Dart plugin for Eclipse now ready for preview(news.dartlang.org)
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IntelliJ updates Dart plugin, supports refactoring(news.dartlang.org)
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Hawaii's Aloha on Rails Conference Opens Call for Participation(alohaonrails.com)
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