On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 18:36:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 10:14:25 UTC, qznc wrote:
I have given up hope for different browser languages than
Javascript. The problem is not finding a language. A lot of
people would love to have Lua, Python, or something else and
it has not happened yet. Dart was the most serious attempt.
They had full-time people at Google working on it and they
gave up.
They didn't give up as they use it internally for their
advertising application. Dart 1.7 was out 2 days ago:
http://news.dartlang.org/2016/06/dart-117-more-performance-improvements.html
They gave up last year [0], when they abandoned
Chrome-integration:
“In order to do what’s best for our users and the web, and not
just Google Chrome, we will focus our web efforts on compiling
Dart to JavaScript,” Dart co-founders Lars Bak and Kasper Lund
wrote today. “We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into
Chrome.”
[0] http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html
