Hacker News Reader

alvivion Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform

> will be Flutter bindings implemented for other languages sometime

I hope so

alvivion A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes

The previous step to Rapture.

alvivion Startups should not use React

> Nerds shouldn't write opinion pieces about subject domains they don't understand.

Following your words, you should not be even allowed to comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

Seriously, stop this.

alvivion Google releases first beta SDK for Dart, including 20% faster analysis engine

Dart is an unilateral project aiming to: "ultimate goal is to replace JavaScript", "rescue browsers from JavaScript" or "Google preps Dart to challenge JavaScript". Being open source here, is not good enough.

alvivion Google releases first beta SDK for Dart, including 20% faster analysis engine

Where is the "Works better on Google Chrome" badge?

alvivion Switched away from App Engine, couldn't be happier

> Our main cost, running a live game, we managed to completely remove gets and puts and run in memcache. We hardly scratch our daily usage now.

Using memcache for store gameplay data is not the best idea. Memcache could be evicted at any time without any previous warning. Using a backend instance and storing the data in the ram is an order of magnitude faster, and thanks to the runtime environment api the service could stop gracefully.

alvivion Google’s Go has some coders raving

No, he doesn't.

alvivion React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces

Seems a child of php and angular...

alvivion Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is

So, I've thought for a long time ... if I could take a clean sheet of paper and write [a new language] that retains all the goodness of [JavaScript] ... I would not have come up with anything like Dart. - Douglas Crockford