Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by rdtsc » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

Dart 1.0 Is Out
news.dartlang.org

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

#2

Post by rdtsc » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 4:50 PM UTC

List of companies using it in production (from the blog post):

* Blossom

* Montage

* Soundtrap

* Mandrill

* Google's internal CRM app

* Google Elections

Companies that started to add support for it: Adobe, drone.io, and JetBrains

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by mikehotel » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 4:52 PM UTC

Going forward, the Dart team will focus on improving Dartium, increasing Dart performance, and ensuring the platform remains rock solid. In particular, changes to core technologies will be backward-compatible for the foreseeable future.

Today’s release marks the first time Dart is officially production-ready, and we’re seeing teams like Blossom, Montage, Soundtrap, Mandrill, Google's internal CRM app and Google Elections, already successfully using Dart in production. In addition, companies like Adobe, drone.io, and JetBrains have started to add Dart support to their products.

Congrats to the team on releasing 1. Now to find a project to try it out in...

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by notok22 » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

I almost finished the Language Tour when I went to the faq and was dissapointed to see that the dart2js compiler supports only ie9+ (https://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#what-browsers-supp...). Too bad, honestly.

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by kodablah » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:09 PM UTC

I think Dart has the potential to become a target for other languages [1]. The already-high-level code has a performant VM and it takes advantage of optional typing (unlike any other VMs I am aware of). In order to do so though, they should at least make a spawnString (like isolate's spawnUri) or even better, have the ability to JIT dart code by string but not execute it right away.

1 - https://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-not-bytecode/

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by efesak » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:14 PM UTC

notok22 wrote: post #4

I almost finished the Language Tour when I went to the faq and was dissapointed to see that the dart2js compiler supports only ie9+ ( https://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#what-browsers-supp... ). Too bad, honestly.

jQuery 2 is ie9+ too fyi

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by nilliams » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

notok22 wrote: post #4

I almost finished the Language Tour when I went to the faq and was dissapointed to see that the dart2js compiler supports only ie9+ ( https://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#what-browsers-supp... ). Too bad, honestly.

Opinion: nobody should be shipping any JS to oldIE, period.

Their JS engines are woeful. Even if you can get something app-like (the kind of thing you would use dart for) to work, your app won't scale w.r.t. perf so you're painting yourself into a corner.

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by pacala » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

kodablah wrote: post #5

I think Dart has the potential to become a target for other languages [1]. The already-high-level code has a performant VM and it takes advantage of optional typing (unlike any other VMs I am aware of). In order to do so though, they should at least make a spawnString (like isolate's spawnUri) or even better, have the ability to JIT dart code by string but not execute it right away. 1 - https://www.dartlang.org/artic…

I hope people give Dart a chance before unleashing the fragmentation zoo upon it. It's quite a nice language.

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by andyl » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

Just waiting for "Works best on Chrome"

Silverlight and ActiveX have already shown the usefulness of proprietary enhancements.

No thanks.

Re: Dart 1.0 Is Out

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Post by davidedicillo » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

Would someone who knows HTML/CSS/RoR better of learning Dart or JS next?