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Seems like a great excuse to create click-bait headlines – not much else.

Not a shortcut exactly, but remap caps lock to ctrl.

So much easier in terminal and for using shortcuts like ctrl-A & ctrl-E for beginning and end of line, etc.

In some cases, there is a trivial one-to-one mapping between a Javascript object and it's JSON serialization.

This is not the case in Dart for a number of reasons.

Many folks are happy with the solution we have – here's an example: https://github.com/dart-lang/json_serializable/tree/master/e...

We're certainly interested in making this better in the future, but as Bob said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16441665) we're very focused on finishing Dart 2 first.

Poor bandwidth has nothing to do with Net Neutrality and everything to do with ~zero competition.

There's a reason these folks are fighting municipal broadband.

If you find yourself agreeing with this: https://vimeo.com/14629850

Git is powerful and amazing, but not simple.

Actually the decision was mostly technical and logistical.

I'll have a post up about it soonish at http://work.j832.com

We try hard to avoid spin.

From the article:

Google Ads, one of Dart's biggest customers, is committed to Dart and supports this new strategy. Scott Silver, VP of Engineering for Ads, says, “We are committed to building our next-generation web apps with Dart, and a renewed focus on generating optimal JavaScript helps us deliver great apps to everyone with a modern browser. Dart has significantly improved our engineers' productivity and our ability to quickly launch and iterate. We currently have one million lines of Dart code and the number is growing fast.” Many other teams inside of Google, such as Google Fiber, Google Express, and Google's internal sales team, use Dart for business-critical apps.

asm.js, CoffeeScript, etc are all great examples of evolving development for the web by compiling to JS.

Dart is new 100% committed to that model for targeting browsers.

This is unrelated.

Angular2 has been TypeScript from the beginning to support both JS and Dart development.

Angular2 is a better story for both Dart and JS developers.

More info: http://work.j832.com/2015/03/angulartsjsatdartwtf.html

The latest preview release of Angular2 Dart was yesterday - https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/angular2#versions

Try out Pop, Pop, Win! (http://kevmoo.github.io/pop-pop-win/) or any of our other samples on Firefox, Safari, or IE.

Making small, fast, compatible Javascript is critical to the success of Dart.

May I disagree? The dart2js compiler does everything you'd expect from a compiler, including inlining, removing unused code, reusing constant expressions. There is a reason that the several examples of Javascript from dart2js perform better than the the native Javascript implementation - https://plus.google.com/+KevinMoore314/posts/AZ67yWMgmdq

I'd argue that the size of Javascript output is great and it continues to improve: http://work.j832.com/2013/10/dart-to-javascript-output-size-...

A profoundly disagree. Javascript is a great language, but that does not mean there is not room to improve. There is a reason tools like CoffeeScript and TypeScript (and even ASM.js) exist: there is a lot of ceremony building large applications with correct, readable Javascript.

The Dart community is full of folks who have written huge amounts of Javascript and consider Dart a welcome advance.

I'm a bit confused how function emulation -- useful, but certainly obscure -- could lead one to simply discard the whole project as tools for lazy Java devs.

Agreed. The goal is great. The name implies malice.