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Re:So you're using a weird language by eternityforest on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:59AM (#33104880)
What systemic problems are there that have anything to do with the tech stack? Stuff is fast, featureful, and incredibly secure considering the attack surface is basically everything every person does. The content and applications are the main issues, the tech behind it all is pretty great and getting even better now that industry is finally learning to not tolerate unsafe languages and tools.

I've never in my life done anything that I feel standard languages aren't a good fit for.

I do think Dart deserves full best practices status, because the tooling and ecosystem around it is fantastic, and because it doesn't have a bunch of "Outside the paradigm" stuff, it's all things you can learn in a week coming from Py/JS/etc.

Re:So you're using a weird language by inkblotuniverse on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:36AM (#33105111)
Everything is horrifically slow.
Re:So you're using a weird language by eternityforest on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:01AM (#33106120)
I've seen almost no horrific slowness aside from program switching on spinning disks recently. Stuff is pretty fast now, and that mostly useless premature optimization quote is out of fashion so it might even get faster.

I'm not exactly sure what the slowness people talk about is. Even the most bloated of websites are fast.

The one thing that still is an issue is Android load times. It gets a little excited about killing background apps on my phone and will take 10 seconds to open my notetaking app again.

Re:So you're using a weird language by jstimpfle on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:58AM (#33105682)
"Everything" is actually not that bad. And what is bad, probably it isn't due to choosing a mainstream compiled language with GC.
Re:So you're using a weird language by yakshaving_jgt on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:23AM (#33105448)
> What systemic problems are there that have anything to do with the tech stack?

Runtime errors.