[This is not the place to discuss Dart, please follow up on https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/group/misc/topics (which I do not follow) ]
On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:19:54 AM UTC+2, Tomasz Gawel wrote: > > > I still don't understand the need for dart. > Have a look at www.infoq.com/articles/google-dart if it would be cross-compiled so where is the advantage over gwt? in > gwt we have the language that we allready know and tools that were > worked out over years. > if it will be incorporated into browser as virtual machine than just > why not to incorporate the jvm? licensing issues? > Dart is designed so as to be cross-compiled to JS, so there's no impedance mismatch. GWT has to do some really tricky things to compile Java to JS (for instance, in Java every object has a hashCode() method and this causes issues when people try to put DOM elements into maps: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=4086; in Dart, there's a Hashable interface –implemented by very few objects–, and a Hashmap can only use Hashable-s as keys). > and another thing - javascript is extremely powerful scripting > language. (as far as it is used for scripting -> max 300 lines of code > it's flexibility is a real power. when comes to maintaining bigger > apps this flexibility occurs to be serious flaw, but it the place > where gwt enters the play. > > as i look closer at DART i start to suspect that probably it is not to > replace javascript but to replace java (and so avoid dependence to > oracle) > but do they think they can provide something better than java which > gained its maturity over years? > Oh yeah, dependence to Oracle; not as if they're going to provide MySQL in AppEngine ;-) http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-cloud-sql-your-database-in-cloud.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/QzT8_eAtEQQJ. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
