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Dart's history of breaking on browser updates because of weird technical decisions really soured me on the idea of ever using it. It's apparently a really good language for native targets, but for the web...

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/13285

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027011

I can't really blame the language designers, but it's a good example of how if your goal is to cross-compile you have to be very careful about how your language is going to interact with the realities of the platforms it runs on. The idea of my deployed websites or apps breaking every couple browser releases really bums me out. (I've had to deal with it with other cross-compilers too.)




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