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Re:Angular Announces AngularDart by cromwellian on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @07:40PM (#6679695)
By that metric, GWT blows away CoffeeScript with ~15,000 questions on SO. Are you sure you want to use that metric?
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Re:Angular Announces AngularDart by Helianthus on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @08:45PM (#6679986)
Point was to compare compile-to-javascript languages.
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Re:Angular Announces AngularDart by spankalee on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @09:42PM (#6680215)
Uh, GWT is a Java-to-JS compiler.

On that note, Java has 508,338 questions on StackOverflow, which crushes CoffeeScript, /especially/ with those 15,000 GWT questions ;)

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Re:Angular Announces AngularDart by Helianthus on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @09:51PM (#6680260)
Oh, interesting. Is it really a standalone transpiler or is it a set of tools?

As someone else pointed out, SO isn't a great metric, but finding github activity by language seemed to take more time than I was willing to invest.

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Re:Angular Announces AngularDart by spankalee on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @10:17PM (#6680385)
No metric will be great right now because Dart is so new compared to CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript 1.0 was released 3 years ago. Give us a chance to get 1.0 out the door :)
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