Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart

Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by WayneDB on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @05:14PM (#3271999)

The web browser is being sold to developers as a "general applications platform" to compete with native applications.

Since native environments often give the developer a greater degree of language-choice freedom as well as greater degree of access to complex APIs, I fail to see how offering the same freedoms in the comparatively miniscule browser API would cause the complexity to outweigh the benefits.

If browser makers just standardized on a language-neutral runtime like the JVM or the CLR then no central committee would have to be responsible for maintaining support for specific languages.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by seanalltogether on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @05:26PM (#3272042)

Exactly, it's time for us to transition to a CLR for web browsers and allow people to continue deploying plain-text javascript which the browser can compile, or let them deploy precompiled byte code written in their favorite language.

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