On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 15:54:44 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
As I understand it, you take a substantial performance hit for doing so.
I haven't noticed this much. It is a bit more annoying to debug on IE. I doubt you get much more than a 40% penalty, but you also get working closures, this-pointer etc.
Belay that, if I wanted a compiler centipede, I'd be more interested in targeting Haxe: community-driven and it lets me
I like the concept, but it takes a lot of resources to cover browser bugs. Dart targets current browsers and are tested against them. It provides polyfills where the browser is lacking and gives you booleans to test for features. You have to count in the libraries, IDE, debugger etc.
