yup, since a long time, having a 13' screen pushes me to do it:
screen 1 browser,
screen 2 terminal full screen with vim, ssh whatever,
screen 3 torrent client and music player
The Dart Editor is lightweight for an editor based on Eclipse, Dart supports canvas, localStorage, websockets and postMessage ... I don't think you could mix Backbone or existing MVC frameworks or other JS libraries with Dart but there are already a number of Dart libraries out there (on GitHub)
agreed. Dart even though it has some awesome features, is still a technology preview, so I also wonder when it will be "stable" (some apis aren't "finished" yet) and it's a Google only thing. On the project's github page, you can read "The problem with JavaScript is that it sucks." ... JavaScript sucks if you don't know how it works, just like another language ... and what's the point of writting this when Dart itself compiles to JavaScript (who the fuck uses Dartium as their primary browser), finally the demo throws 18 errors ... fail.
It should be out of technology preview later this year.
> JavaScript sucks if you don't know how it works
It's possible to understand JS and want better. I think the people behind V8 and Dart know how JS works.
> what's the point of writting this when Dart itself compiles to JavaScript
What's the point of writing anything in any language? The Dart VM will be included with Chrome and other browsers are free to include one, too; Dart->JS is for browsers that don't and the goal is that it'll perform similar to hand-written JS.
> who the fuck uses Dartium as their primary browser
Nobody. It's for development until the Dart VM is included with Chrome.
Exactly -- that's why this is exciting, particularly the Flash / interactive part. The authors have done a very good job with what they have to work with, with the assumption that they're only working with a preview and that the primary medium will be a VM with a JS fallback. The performance, all said, is very, very good.
