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A comment on Dart language.

Re:Dart language by wulfric on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:32AM (#3093310)
Wow guys. Google is not aiming at a next gen Haskell or ML. They are trying to create a less cluttered Java and a stricter, more performant Javascript. Judge a solution in context of the problem it is trying to solve. If they got Simon Peyton Jones to design this it would be somewhat intimidating for your average webdev[no disrespect].

I'm somewhat disappointed that they insist on a 90's C syntax. It's like Python/Ruby/Coffeescript never existed.

C'mon Google, you can do way better...

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Re:Dart language by daviddaviddavid on Monday October 10, 2011 @08:55AM (#3093552)
I think this comment gets to the heart of the matter. People want something different. They want a Haskell. How many blog posts about Perlis languages have we seen in the past several months?

Reading these comments I've come across the words: boring, uninspired, underwhelmed...

I couldn't agree more.

JavaScript's prototypal object model can at least keep my attention.

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