Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications

Re:Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for we... by sambeau on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:09AM (#3093236)

The point is not that they are already all over this but rather that an IL is something that all the browser makers could get behind.

If Javascript is good enough as an IL why does Dart bypass it in Chrome?

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Re:Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for we... by bzbarsky on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @01:08AM (#3097200)

> If Javascript is good enough as an IL why does Dart > bypass it in Chrome?

Because they decided that it was easier to make up a new language than improve the V8 implementation of ECMAScript, as far as I can tell.

And at least locally, for Google, that may be true. Whether it's true for the web as a whole is unclear.

Other ECMAScript implementors seem to think that V8 is not nearly as fast as an ES implementation could be and are working on proving their claims with actual running code...

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Re:Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for we... by ra on Monday October 10, 2011 @08:46AM (#3093514)

> The point is ... that an IL is something that all the browser makers could get behind.

Sure, but that's not going to happen in the next decade unless that IL is in Javascript.

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Re:Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for we... by sambeau on Monday October 10, 2011 @09:00AM (#3093567)

If they built an IL that can also be implemented in Javascript they might have a chance.

e.g:

  Javascript → IL → Javascript

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Re:Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for we... by ra on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:15PM (#3095889)

Yes, that's what I said!

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Re:Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for we... by sambeau on Monday October 10, 2011 @09:46PM (#3096703)

Sorry, I must have missed the word 'in'.

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