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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
The model seems slightly different - don't WebWorkers share state?
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?
https://code.google.com/p/dart/
(Look in the bleeding_edge branch)
Currently doing a repo pull here so I haven't had much time to look around at it yet. I'm cautiously optimistic though, it looks quite a bit like I was hoping Dart would look (a bit of the ECMA4/ActionScript feel on top of JavaScript).
Creating an object: Greeter greeter = new Greeter() or var greeter = new Greeter() Defining a constant: static final myConst = 1 Plus there are classes, interfaces... It's just Java?
Looks a lot more like James Gosling, actually ....
New MIME type "application/dart"... I suspect that Google Chrome will embed a Dart Runtime when it gets stable, that will be very interesting; I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing though.
Aaaarghhh! It is full of semicolons. 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.
The thing I was really hoping for from the dart site was an "about" section, or a "why" section, explaining about the language and their goals, instead of just jumping to code examples...
New MIME type "application/dart"... I suspect that Google Chrome will embed a Dart Runtime when it gets stable, that will be very interesting; I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing though.
OTOH it's not that uncommon these days, especially when these transpiled-to-js languages want to run without being translated ahead of time (though usually in production you would want to do that offline)...text/coffeescript, text/traceur, text/es-harmony, etc etc