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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by zeveb on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:41AM (#13375201)
> But I always thought getting browsers to adopt Dart was a crazy and impossible idea.

I don't know — browsers are already planning to adopt a non-JavaScript language (WebAssembly); it's entirely possible that maybe, just maybe they might start to support more than just the late-90s mistake which is JavaScript.

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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by pjmlp on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @01:43PM (#13376341)
As someone that enjoys more developing native apps than web ones, I imagine Web Assembly will eventually be the revenge of plugins.

How long it will take for Canvas/WebGL + WebAssembly frameworks to appear?

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Re:Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fas... by devsquid on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @04:30PM (#13377653)
Eventually someones going to create a XML based layout language to use to construct views in the Canvas, we could even call it HTML ;)

I'm not a web developer either and I look forward to WASM and its potential. But I really like HTML, I've used lots of layout languages before and I think HTML is the best I've used. The only thing I find HTML to be obtuse about is complex animations.

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