On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 19:03:06 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 15:34:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Actually, there is quite a large overlap if you look beyond
the syntax. Dart is completely unexciting, but I also find it
very productive when used with the IDE.
Glad to hear this - I haven't yet got very far with Dart, but
it seems like a toss-up between Dart and Livescript for a
passable language to run on the client (for my little use case).
I don't know the future of Dart, but if you have time to wait for
it you might consider atscript/Angular 2.0.
Knuth is also right that people think in different ways, and
it's an entirely natural thing to see a multiplicity of
languages emerging that are adapted to these different ways
(and of course the particular challenges people face are also
different). That's why religious wars about these things have
I think most imperative languages are just variations over the
same theme. I pick them based on what they+ecosystem is good at,
not the language by itself. So basically, you have to be best at
one particular application area to do well. Go is aiming to have
a good runtime for building smaller web-services, and they are
getting there. Because they focus.
