Dartium: Google’s New Dart Programming Language Comes to Chromium

Post by zoips » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 2:14 AM UTC

georgemcbay wrote: post #17

rst wrote: post #11

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And yet, oddly, one of the front-page testimonials for node.js is LinkedIn saying that use of that particular brand of server-side Javascript gave them "huge performance gains". That obviously doesn't mean that Node (or Javascript in general) will perform well in every situation, but it does show at least an existence proof that JS is capable of high performance in some very demanding environments. What I haven't see…

So your justification for Dart being unnecessary is that the Javascript interpreter built by the people who are building Dart is really fast (for a Javascript engine)? Don't you think that building V8 (the engine inside Node) may have given them some very good insight into the upper bounds of Javascript performance and insight into ways to fix them?

Post by ramblerman » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 12:30 PM UTC

sparkie wrote: post #25

afsina wrote: post #10

I for one welcome Dartium. I need to learn the language and JS compilation was an unnecessary barrier. I care less about people's whining. A language that does not suck? Check. Is it multi platform? Check. Can it work in other browsers if necessary? Check. Is it open source? check. Can it run in server? Check. Is it fast? Check.

You could take one of dozens of language and mark "check" for each of those points. (And the first one is questionable anyway, there are better languages). So why Dart rather than some other language? What's it's real selling points? Perhaps the strongest thing going for Dart is that there's a big company with resources behind it. Unfortunately, this is also the worst thing about it. Google's lack of effort to involv…