Seems like Josh (at least) understands tooling's importance. From an interview regarding Effective Java, 2nd Edition:
"Joshua Bloch: Easier! People just love modern IDEs and all they do to accelerate the development process. Programmers do refactorings that they just wouldn't have bothered with if they had to do them manually. And static analysis, of the sort performed by FindBugs and by the code inspection facilities in modern IDEs is a real blessing. We all make mistakes, and it sure is nice to have an automated assistant looking over your shoulder." http://www.infoq.com/articles/bloch-effective-java-2e 2011/12/7 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: > > 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. -- Jeb Beich http://www.red-source.net/jeb -- 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.
