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I'm from C# background and I can't imagine doing large client apps in JS anymore - maybe I'm too old but Dart IDE and integrated debugger is something I can't live without.

Dart is single best client side tech for me.

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Pretty much an identical background for me, and I recently had to write a fairly non-trivial client side application (some drag-and-drop, quartz-composer like interface) and I chose Dart. It worked really well. I find that sometimes it's hard for people to reconcile their idealistic vs. pragmatic sensibilities when it comes to new programming languages. Dart makes it incredibly easy to get up and running ... it's pragmatic.

Since you're already invested in the MS stack Did you try TypeScript ?

If yes how does it compare to Dart ?

I left MS stack (not a big fan of Windows), so having really cross platform IDE is a big win for me.

Can't say anything on TS - but AFAIK it's mostly syntactic sugar on JS, no first class IDE on non-Windows, no pub (dedicated Dart package manager), no native VM (I'm also doing server side on Dart recently) and still it's possible shot your foot just like in JS - saying all that - I will have to really try it out.

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