Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart

Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by jjcm on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:58PM (#3271204)

Microsoft has long since lost the ability to shape the face of the web. While they do contribute to w3c here and there, at the end of the day the webkit and firefox teams are going to control where it goes. The question isn't whether or not it has Microsoft's support, the question is whether or not javascript is flawed enough to put the effort needed into releasing a new scripting language engine with browsers.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by gcp on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @02:10PM (#3271267)

at the end of the day the webkit and firefox teams are going to control where it goes.

I don't think this is entirely true. IE still has more than enough marketshare to matter. Microsoft embracing some approach, be it a new language, or be it evolving JavaScript, has influences in how likely the efforts of the other teams are to succeed in the marketplace.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by rbanffy on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @04:53PM (#3271915)

> Microsoft has long since lost the ability to shape the face of the web.

In a sense, it did. There are tons of IE6 installations in companies that built "web-based" applications that run only on IE6 and they won't upgrade to newer Microsoft browsers soon. OTOH, IE6+7+8+9 still has a huge percentage of the market and some flavor of IE comes pre-installed on about every desktop computer sold and web developers still have to cope with partial or incorrect support for many newer standards.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by dredmorbius on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @03:34PM (#3271600)

Ahh ... so the Evil Empire's new tactic for Total World Domination is to deny they have Total World Domination.

;-)

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