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by Igglyboo 4371 days ago
Because then his userbase goes from being an extremely small niche(chromium is probably less than 1%) to a much larger niche(chrome is more than 30%).
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rational-future 4371 days ago
Do you mean that Chromium now has a Dart VM? The last time I checked it didn't, there was a buggy thing called Dartium.
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gsnedders 4370 days ago
Dartium is still separate to Chromium.
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munificent 4370 days ago
Dart -- without being in Chrome -- has the same userbase as CoffeeScript, ClojureScript, or any other language that also compiles to JavaScript.

There are some real potential wins with being in Chrome, many of which are political, but there are no technical reasons for not being in Chrome to block Dart's adoption.

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Igglyboo 4369 days ago
Except Dart isn't trying to be another "compiles to javascript" language like CS, Dart is trying to completely replace js which is why it's so much more difficult to implement. They have to build an entire VM to rival V8.
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spankalee 4368 days ago
The point is that if you write in Dart you still have a very large target audience without the VM.

Sure, Dart's designed to have even more benefit when run in it's own VM, but that doesn't affect its reach.

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