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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by attractivechaos on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:30PM (#13371011)
Thanks for the retrospect. I always think Dart has lots of potentials. It could be a great general-purpose programming language, as versatile as perl/python/ruby while tens of times faster than them all. Unfortunately, the dart developers are too obsessed about web programming and reluctant to embrace the bigger world. It is really a pity.

PS: when dart came out, javascript was already blazingly fast (as a dynamic language) and largely usable. Dart is indeed better but not that better to revolutionize web programming. On the other hand, most general-purpose programming languages are very slow even nowadays. Pypy is faster than CPython, but not to the level of V8, dart, julia or luajit. A capable JIT compiled dynamic language may change how we program. Dart was the closest, but missed the target.

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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by flukus on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @02:15AM (#13372344)
Seems like nim and crystal would fill that void better, maybe even rust.
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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by porker on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @04:24AM (#13372765)
> Seems like nim and crystal would fill that void better

Having seen a talk on Nim at the Bris.tech conference [1], I can't think of any void it would fill better than an alternative. My takeaway was it was a very flexible but poorly designed language with too many ways to do anything.

1. Video coming soon; keep an eye on https://www.youtube.com/user/bristechmeetup/videos

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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by dom96 on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @10:52AM (#13374766)
That's sad to hear. But I want to learn more. Can you give some specific examples of what gave you that impression?
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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by dom96 on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:38AM (#13372597)
Yes, especially considering that Nim can compile to JS too. It truly is general purpose in that regard.
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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by statsmatscats on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @12:01AM (#13371875)
Julia is a general purpose language
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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by attractivechaos on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @01:37AM (#13372202)
Julia focuses too much on numerical programming, which makes it great for matlab users, but awkward for other purposes.
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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by whyrt12 on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:48AM (#13375264)
In what way?
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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by pjmlp on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @02:13AM (#13372338)
> A capable JIT compiled dynamic language may change how we program.

You mean Lisp? AOT/JIT available since the 70's.

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