Thursday, October 13, 2011

Tool: JavaScript has problems. Do we need Dart to solve them?

On js's real problems, and whether dart is the answer. This guy argues for an open standard instead. Nice backgrounder. 

Feature: JavaScript has problems. Do we need Dart to solve them?





Google hopes to upset JavaScript's dominance by introducing a new language, Dart. Dart is designed to be simpler, more familiar, and faster than JavaScript, and Google one day wants to see it everywhere: in the browser, on the server, and maybe even on the smartphone. Those are big ambitions, but before we take a look at Dart and at Google's plans for it, it's worth taking a closer look at JavaScript itself. Why exactly doesn't Google like it?

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