Why I'm joining the Dart Team

Re:Why I'm joining the Dart Team by such_a_casual on Saturday January 09, 2016 @01:20PM (#10872225)

I'm talking about chrome's extension library returning NULL instead of a "tab" object when creating a new tab because of a syntax error in a completely different file.

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Re:Why I'm joining the Dart Team by pluma on Saturday January 09, 2016 @03:14PM (#10872688)

You're judging JavaScript by Chrome's extension API?

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Re:Why I'm joining the Dart Team by such_a_casual on Saturday January 09, 2016 @04:31PM (#10872962)

It had nothing to do with Chrome's extension API. The API works perfectly fine. It has to do with the nature of JavaScript where syntax errors are "forgiven" leading to unforgivable bugs that require line by line review unless you use a tool to check your syntax. This was not the first, last, or only syntax caused bug I experienced. It was simply the most frustrating and inexplicable.

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Re:Why I'm joining the Dart Team by pluma on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @07:03AM (#10886894)

Syntax errors in JS throw exceptions.

JS syntax tends to hide certain mistakes but errors always throw.

If Chrome's extension API swallows exceptions, that's not a JS problem.

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