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Re:The Joy of Haxe by simion314 on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:08PM (#18264567)
Dart had some other downsides, like you needed Java I think and many developers have an irrational disgust for Java(I hope I remember right)

There are other languages pushed by a big corporation that fail so having the big corporation is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

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Re:The Joy of Haxe by skybrian on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:25PM (#18265236)
The syntax looks a bit like a cross between JavaScript and Java, but Dart isn't much at all like Java and doesn't depend on Java.

But you might be remembering the old Dart IDE, which was based on Eclipse.

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Re:The Joy of Haxe by simion314 on Saturday October 20, 2018 @05:28PM (#18265590)
I think I get confused, google had/has some transpilers/compiulers and other web tools that were based on Java and Java tooling.
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Re:The Joy of Haxe by m_sahaf on Saturday October 20, 2018 @05:57PM (#18265715)
You were probably thinking of GWT and/or Closure-Compiler
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Re:The Joy of Haxe by village-idiot on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:28AM (#18267704)
Side note: it really pisses me off that Google picks language and tool names that have really poor SEO and are often names for existing CS concepts. Go and Dart have terrible SEO, and Chrome and Closure already mean something in their fields.

Drives me nuts.

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Re:The Joy of Haxe by skybrian on Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:06PM (#18268894)
When it was first announced, I complained about "Go" and someone said it provides an interesting challenge for the search engine team. (There are lots of synonyms.)

I find that searching on "golang" generally does the trick.

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