On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 10:14:25 UTC, qznc wrote:
I have given up hope for different browser languages than
Javascript. The problem is not finding a language. A lot of
people would love to have Lua, Python, or something else and it
has not happened yet. Dart was the most serious attempt. They
had full-time people at Google working on it and they gave up.
They didn't give up as they use it internally for their
advertising application. Dart 1.7 was out 2 days ago:
http://news.dartlang.org/2016/06/dart-117-more-performance-improvements.html
I think most people outside Google has given up though. I've
picked up Typescript and I suspect many others have as well.
Typescript is close enough to Javascript to make debugging
reasonable.
