[attractivechaos]

Thanks for the retrospect. I always think Dart has lots of potentials. It could be a great general-purpose programming language, as versatile as perl/python/ruby while tens of times faster than them all. Unfortunately, the dart developers are too obsessed about web programming and reluctant to embrace the bigger world. It is really a pity.

PS: when dart came out, javascript was already blazingly fast (as a dynamic language) and largely usable. Dart is indeed better but not that better to revolutionize web programming. On the other hand, most general-purpose programming languages are very slow even nowadays. Pypy is faster than CPython, but not to the level of V8, dart, julia or luajit. A capable JIT compiled dynamic language may change how we program. Dart was the closest, but missed the target.

[flukus]

Seems like nim and crystal would fill that void better, maybe even rust.

[porker]

> Seems like nim and crystal would fill that void better

Having seen a talk on Nim at the Bris.tech conference [1], I can't think of any void it would fill better than an alternative. My takeaway was it was a very flexible but poorly designed language with too many ways to do anything.

1. Video coming soon; keep an eye on https://www.youtube.com/user/bristechmeetup/videos

[dom96]

That's sad to hear. But I want to learn more. Can you give some specific examples of what gave you that impression?

[dom96]

Yes, especially considering that Nim can compile to JS too. It truly is general purpose in that regard.

[statsmatscats]

Julia is a general purpose language

[attractivechaos]

Julia focuses too much on numerical programming, which makes it great for matlab users, but awkward for other purposes.

[whyrt12]

In what way?

[pjmlp]

> A capable JIT compiled dynamic language may change how we program.

You mean Lisp? AOT/JIT available since the 70's.