Ask HN: What happened to Dart?

5 points·kentf··9 comments

I remember their being a lot of hype around Dart given that it was Google and Chrome and all that jazz, but I don't hear much about it lately.

Their website has been refreshed: https://www.dartlang.org/

Looks like there is a conference coming up too. Just wondering what the general feeling is? Is this the replacement to JS or just another language that some will chose to learn?

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Dart's around. It's great :)

The developer summit was a couple of months ago, but there will be more.

What exactly is great in Dart in comparison with other languages?

It compiles to JS and allows for seamless JS interop and its a highly usable language.

Other languages also compiles to JS (even better than Dart) and don't require JS interop and they also highly usable languages.

What exactly is great in Dart in comparison with these languages?

The only way Dart will survive it is if Google start using it as a lenguaje for creating Android apps, because for the server or web applications is practicatly dead, not becuase nobody is using it, because is doomed to be in the shadow of JavaScript.

Just another language which compiles to Javascript. Till now with their own virtual machine. But already without their own Editor. And, as always, without any programming language roadmap.

Dart also lacks the ability to use the "pub" command if you're behind a proxy or your organization uses IronPort or some other ssl sniffer that breaks your certs.

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/5454 https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/18929

That issue is closed as fixed.

I supposed the DEP (Dart Enhancement Process) isn't good enough?

https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_enhancement_proposals

They send out regular notes about DEP meetings, which proposals are under consideration, and which have been accepted.

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