Re:TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++
by discreteevent on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:46PM
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That was the main motivation behind the inventors of dart. They got frustrated with all the hacks they had to put into V8 just because JavaScript was so mechanically unsympathetic. You can hardly blame then because they originally came from a background of developing smalltalk and self VMs.
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Re:TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++
by emteycz on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:06PM
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Isn't JS much more Smalltalk-ish than Dart? I don't have much experience with Dart, but it always seemed like a very OOP language to me (and not in the "message passing" meaning).
Re:TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++
by mattgreenrocks on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:26PM
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This is super interesting to me as a VM geek.
I'd written off Dart as "Google's Swift" for the most part, but this makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the comment.