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by winteriscomming 5289 days ago
Yes I like the direction dart is going in (except would prefer the type system had more actual meaning than just annotations for tooling, but still).

My pipe dream: - Google implements a VM for dart or equivalent.

- Dart, Java, C#, ActionScript, Python, Ruby, whatever, can compile to this VM.

- VM/bytecode is initially just in chrome, which is fine as far as I am concerned (no problem saying our app works in chrome only). You can transpile to JS if you want to target other browsers.

- Because of native VM implementation in chrome, the best web applications are in chrome. Chrome increases in popularity.

- Other vendors are forced to implement this VM.

- We get to something like a client VM (lets call it CVM) standard for all browsers.

- Developer productivity improves and browser based apps start not sucking so bad in comparison to their native brothers.