JavaScript needs to retire, says Douglas Crockford, JSON creator

Re:JavaScript needs to retire, says Douglas Crockford, JSON ... by xxprogamerxy on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:03PM (#32362938)

Dart is probably the best contender for 'replacing' JavaScript right now.

Dart's Type- and Null-safety, built in support for both JIT and AOT compilation, great dev tools, and the rapidly growing ecosystem make it a delight to work with.

I can actually see Google shipping Chrome with the Dart VM in addition to V8 a few years down the line.

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Re:JavaScript needs to retire, says Douglas Crockford, JSON ... by dragonwriter on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:15PM (#32363015)

> I can actually see Google shipping Chrome with the Dart VM in addition to V8 a few years down the line.

It was called “Dartium” and it was discontinued with Dart 2.

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Re:JavaScript needs to retire, says Douglas Crockford, JSON ... by xxprogamerxy on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:40PM (#32363236)

Just checked it out, you're right. They actually explicitly said:

> In order to do what's best for our users and the web, and not just Google Chrome, we will focus our web efforts on compiling Dart to JavaScript. We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome. https://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html

But I guess with the adoption of WebAssembly, that won't really matter anyway.

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Re:JavaScript needs to retire, says Douglas Crockford, JSON ... by wizofaus on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:52PM (#32364679)

Serious question but where's the proposal to allow WebAssembly to interact with the DOM? I'm assuming it's in the works somewhere...

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