Who is behind Dart?

Re:Who is behind Dart? by pjmlp on Thursday April 09, 2015 @04:15AM (#9346278)

From my point of view as an outsider, if it wasn't for Rails, Ruby would never had reached mainstream, even though many of its ideas were already available in other stacks.

Also AFAIK many of the Rails use cases drive Ruby's design.

So in a way, DHH was influential to get Ruby adopted.

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Re:Who is behind Dart? by autoreleasepool on Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:19PM (#9348683)

I don't see the point in muddling the distinction between creating something and making it popular.

If it wasn't for MFC, C++ (which was released in 1983) might not have reached the widespread adoption it did in the 90's.

Yet, I would wager most people wouldn't argue that Microsoft should be mentioned along with Bjarne Stroustrup when talking about the creators behind C++.

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Re:Who is behind Dart? by pjmlp on Thursday April 09, 2015 @02:40PM (#9349920)

> If it wasn't for MFC, C++ (which was released in 1983) might not have reached the widespread adoption it did in the 90's.

I always smile at that urban legend. It belongs to the same place as game consoles use OpenGL for their APIs.

1 - Microsoft was the last C compiler vendor to add C++ to their toolchain in MS-DOS with the 7.0 version of their compiler. Everyone else already had C++ support.

2 - The first generations of C++ developers targeting Windows were using Borland C++ with OWL, followed by C++ Builder. This started to change after Borland's management went crazy.

3 - Before JEE, enterprise distributed computing was done on UNIX systems with C++ and CORBA.

4 - OS/2 had a C++ framework similar ot COM, but more powerful with support for metaclasses and other Smalltalk ideas

5 - The Taligent project being developed by IBM and Apple were based on C++

6 - Apple replaced their Object Pascal code with C for the lowlevel APIs and the C++ framework PowerPlant

7 - The Lisp Machines vendor, Lucid tried to sell a C++ IDE with Lisp like features still not available in modern C++ IDE's

8 - IBM started to move OS/400 code from the PL/I dialect into C++

9 - Many C++ MS-DOS developers were already enjoying C++ frameworks via Turbo Vision

I could provide lots of more examples.

MFC only became usable when Visual Studio moved into 32bits world. And even then, the mismanagement from Symantec, Borland, Watcom and Metrowerks were a bigger reason for developers to move to Visual Studio than anything else.

If developers now complain about the slowness of the modern Microsoft to adopt the C++ standard, back then it was even worse.

Visual Studio was the IE 6 of C++ compilers, with language features for COM and ATL taking priority over ANSI C++ compliance.

As former C++ dev I appreciate all the support the modern Microsoft gives to the community, but having MFC responsible for C++'s adoption in the industry, really?!?

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