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"Concurrency is supported via actor-like entities called isolates. An isolate is a unit of concurrency. It has its own memory and its own thread of control. Isolates communicate by message passing (10.14.4). No state is ever shared between isolates. Isolates are created by spawning (10.11)"
http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/dartLangSpec.pdf
I wonder how they compile this down to Javascript?
Can anyone explain why I should use this instead of other web programming languages?
The "hello world" example is incredibly uninformative. What does that have to do with "structured web programming"? Where is this printed out on a web page? Does the console output there correspond to the html output? Or some other console?
It's actually runnable if you click the "play"-icon in the top-left of the code sample. The "Hello, Dart!" is written to a console emerging from underneath the code sample. https://code.google.com/p/dart/source/browse/branches/bleedi... is a more DOM-oriented version of the same program.
I am most excited about the concurrency model! "Concurrency is supported via actor-like entities called isolates. An isolate is a unit of concurrency. It has its own memory and its own thread of control. Isolates communicate by message passing (10.14.4). No state is ever shared between isolates. Isolates are created by spawning (10.11)" http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/dartLangSpec.pdf I wonder how they compile this…
Hmm. A little underwhelmed so far.
You know I'll probably use those socks someday, but its not what I was really hoping for.
Is it really necessary in the 21st century to create a language that terminates lines with semicolons? I am sure I have seen some other languages in the past that get by just fine without them.
I don't get it. What's the runtime for this? The interpreter seems to be running on App Engine, so it's probably JVM based, right?
There's a compiler that translates to JavaScript, and a standalone VM.
I am most excited about the concurrency model! "Concurrency is supported via actor-like entities called isolates. An isolate is a unit of concurrency. It has its own memory and its own thread of control. Isolates communicate by message passing (10.14.4). No state is ever shared between isolates. Isolates are created by spawning (10.11)" http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/dartLangSpec.pdf I wonder how they compile this…
That doesn't sound so different from WebWorkers, which you can already use from javascript in newer browsers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_web_workers
I am most excited about the concurrency model! "Concurrency is supported via actor-like entities called isolates. An isolate is a unit of concurrency. It has its own memory and its own thread of control. Isolates communicate by message passing (10.14.4). No state is ever shared between isolates. Isolates are created by spawning (10.11)" http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/dartLangSpec.pdf I wonder how they compile this…
That doesn't sound so different from WebWorkers, which you can already use from javascript in newer browsers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_web_workers