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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by markdog12 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:12PM (#14162311)
> Few Web developers wanted Dart

Do you just mean they didn't want the dart vm in browsers? Or the language? If the latter as well, I respectfully disagree.

> Dart actively ignored outside feedback

Again, on the language or just having the vm in browsers?

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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by pcwalton on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:20PM (#14162362)
Few developers wanted either the language or the native support in browsers. Witness the success of e.g. TypeScript compared to Dart.

There were plenty of issues in the Dart language, too. The way generics variance was deliberately unsound was bizarre, in particular, and they resisted attempts to fix it.

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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by markdog12 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:34PM (#14162443)
As I'm sure you're aware, the better language doesn't always win the popularity contest. Typescript, being a superset of js still has a lot of its warts. Dart is more of a clean break.
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