Re:The Joy of Haxe
by skybrian on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:10PM
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No, plugins were already on the way out when Dart was released.
In short, some folks at Google had ambitions for Dart to eventually become a web standard with an interpreter built in to browsers, with compile-to-JavaScript used for the transition. That was a radical, unpopular idea and didn't happen even for Chrome, but Dart lives on as a nice compile-to-JavaScript language, and has new life on mobile due to Flutter.
Microsoft had a much more conservative strategy with Typescript and executed on it better. Having modest goals was a big win there.
In short, some folks at Google had ambitions for Dart to eventually become a web standard with an interpreter built in to browsers, with compile-to-JavaScript used for the transition. That was a radical, unpopular idea and didn't happen even for Chrome, but Dart lives on as a nice compile-to-JavaScript language, and has new life on mobile due to Flutter.
Microsoft had a much more conservative strategy with Typescript and executed on it better. Having modest goals was a big win there.