On 3/22/2014 2:38 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<[email protected]>" wrote:
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:54:16 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
like "end to end" the same language. Many are asking about server-side
Dart as well as client-side Dart in the browser.
Yes, a CLI/server Dart VM exists that is suitable for a http server. The
advantage of client/server code sharing is obvious when you write
web-apps, but I am a bit weary of using dynamic languages on web servers
since runtime errors can be nasty. I personally would like to see a Dart
version with a much stricter type system, but I think the Dart library
is just about right for web development and the language itself is
pretty well rounded and pragmatic (but nothing spectacular).
Using the same language on client/server is indeed quite nice, partly
because of less mental context-switching, and also because of increased
code sharing (which also makes it easier to move things between client
vs server if you need to). Because of that, and an irritating need to
support cheapo shared/PHP-hosting servers (which are NEVER run by
companies who have the slightest comprehension of security), I'd been
using Haxe pretty heavily for a good while. Haxe is a rather "ok"
language, which is practically high praise coming from me - I'm
typically very critical of languages.
FWIW though, lately I've been swinging back over to the side of "I'd
rather use the best language I can whenever possible, code duplication
and other concerns over multiple languages be damnned." Life's too short
to tolerate subpar tools.
