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Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications

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Re: Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications

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Peaker wrote: post #9
thomasfl wrote: post #6

The optionally static types in the Dart language seems like a good idea. You get both beautiful, simple code, like in Ruby, and the possibility to speed up execution by adding types later. On the other hand, you still don't have the great community like for instance ruby has. Charles Nutter has created a static typed ruby like language, called Mirah, which looks similar.

Full type inference also lets you write beautiful, simple code -- without even needing to add types later, you get them now. And speeding up execution is just a bonus, the main benefit is catching errors early, and refactoring safely.

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Re: Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications

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Post by nordsieck »

wavephorm wrote: post #4
rorrr wrote: post #2

Unless all major browsers support it, the adoption will be painful and slow. It also seems like another incarnation of GWT, which, I heard, google abandoned.

Afaik they only abandoned Gears, not GWT.

And it's not like they abandoned Gears because no one was using it, but instead because Gears was so successful that many of the features got (sort of) rolled into HTML 5.

Re: Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications

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Post by code_duck »

frou_dh wrote: post #10

That page crashed MobileSafari on iPad and continues to after a reboot. Is it just me?

Crashing Safari on OS X, too. Or rather, the tab hangs.

It produces an "TypeError: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating 'a[Ra]')" and "TypeError: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating 'b.count')". The console was a bit hard to get to with webkit2 taking up 100% of a cpu and all that.

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Post by thirsteh »

One of the design goals: "Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution."

Server-side execution? I thought Go was their systems programming language? It sure sounds like they're competing rather than complementing each other.

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Post by brackin »

leonlee wrote: post #11
frou_dh wrote: post #10

That page crashed MobileSafari on iPad and continues to after a reboot. Is it just me?

It's sending me back to Hacker News after it completely loads on my Blackberry.

Just go to Dartlang.org it's crashing in safari.

Re: Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications

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Post by brackin »

leonlee wrote: post #11
frou_dh wrote: post #10

That page crashed MobileSafari on iPad and continues to after a reboot. Is it just me?

It's sending me back to Hacker News after it completely loads on my Blackberry.

Just go to Dartlang.org it's crashing in safari.

Re: Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications

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Post by almost »

thirsteh wrote: post #15

One of the design goals: "Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution." Server-side execution? I thought Go was their systems programming language? It sure sounds like they're competing rather than complementing each other.

There's a lot of server side programming for which Go probably wouldn't be the ideal language. Room for more than 2 languages in the world I think :)
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