Month aside, it would be a great thing to actually happen...
Instead of e.g. Google investing tens of millions on BS like Dart.
Instead of e.g. Google investing tens of millions on BS like Dart.
I just wish there was more serverside-development happening in Dart - it seems 95% client-side focused at the moment (dart2js and flutter).
A new language that doesn't solve anything better than Smalltalk did.
Besides from that the syntax is completely different, being inherited from C.
https://www.dartlang.org/articles/language/optional-types
(But meh, it's not really innovative/new as this page says, just not popular.)
Basically, it's a language that allows you to choose the level of type checking. You can be super strict all the time, or only when it matters. Or not at all.
Like all other modern languages it naturally has the basic collection data types built in so that you don't have to reinvent them.