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What's up with building an editor instead of a general IDE toolkit (like Scion or Rope)? I'm not going to stop using Emacs just to get Dart support, so folks ought to focus on the general case.

Google is big on Java development, so I bet many of their programmers are Eclipse users. (Remember that the prominent way to author Android apps is through an Eclipse plugin.)

I imagine the Dart editor was probably spun off early attempts at writing Eclipse integration, until someone realized they could write a much leaner editor and gain some developer props for focusing on the developer experience first.

I don't understand why Google went in two different paths. Why didn't Google release an Eclipse plugin for Dart instead of an Eclipse based editor ? If you think you have an answer to that, try applying it to why did Google release a plugin for Android and not an Android editor like Dart ?

This uses Eclipse Rich Client Platform, which is the definitive IDE toolkit.

I think it's great. I'd much rather have a lightweight editor I get with an easy install than trying to for example setup Dart for Eclipse (which I utterly hate).

They already have emacs templates for dart.

Google loves Eclipse.

Indeed, it's an Eclipse RCP application.

For a moment before clicking, I thaught that it might be an online editor written in Darts. Now, that would be cool.

Instead, they released Eclipse RCP application that people are not even going to bother to install, let alone play with it. Even Eclipse plugin would be better.

The only thing I can find that points out that this is a google project is the link to the privacy policy at the bottom of the page. Kind of strange.

Also, what's the over under on when Dart becomes a first class language in Chrome?

Java syntax for the web: http://www.gifflix.com/files/2e668a0d9406.gif

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