On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote:
> But in the meantime Chrome share passed Firefox share and it's the second > browser around. So at this point if Google is serious about Dart, I'd say > that chances are good. Agreed. Javascript is very powerful and has proven extremely useful time and time again, and it's going to be around for a while, but something will eventually replace it. I think Dart has a very decent shot at it considering it's being pushed by a company that is creating a very successful browser, has a lot of clout *and* also the manpower to actually pull off a very good language. And with the plan to generate Javascript for browsers that won't be supporting Dart natively, I think all the elements are in place. My only concern is that Dart is being engineered by what seems to be an "old school" of language designers. I don't mean this in a bad way, just that they are people who probably tend to write their code in emacs and who might see IDE's and surrounding tooling as a second thought. The Chrome Javascript debugger is superb, though, so I hope to see something good come out of all this. I compare this to Ceylon, which just released an early version of their Eclipse plug-in before a standalone compiler is even available. Now *that* is a model I can get behind. Wishing Google and Josh well. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
