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by paulddraper
3276 days ago
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> I'm curious why people keep asking this? I think this is pretty obvious. Dart was created to be an VM-optimizable language for the web. I attended talks by it's creators in the early days, and this was the majority of the conversation. Then other browsers refused to implement it and even stable Chrome never included DartVM, and the project announced it was giving up on that goal. So with the raison d'etre gone, people wonder if the new language is still used. If infinite RAM had been invented three years ago, people would be asking the same question about Rust today, despite the fact that the language has more to offer than low-overhead maintainable memory management. |
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I was thinking that the decision not to ship with Chrome was very old news, but actually it was just two years ago [1]. Time flies!
Dart for the web is purely a compile-to-JavaScript language now. The last bit will be replacing Dartium with DDC [2].
The Dart VM is still around. It's used in Dart's command-line tools and in Flutter. Also, the Sass compiler is moving from Ruby to Dart. [3]
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/25/google-will-not-integrate-... [2] http://news.dartlang.org/2017/06/dart-124-faster-edit-refres... [3] http://sass.logdown.com/posts/1909151