Google's 'JavaScript killer' marks first birthday with update

Just over a year after it first unveiled the Dart language for large-scale web programming, Google has announced that its purported "JavaScript killer" has hit its first major milestone. "Today, after plowing through thousands of bug reports and feature requests from the web community, a new, more stable and comprehensive …

[Anonymous Coward]

It won't be long now until they shit can this project. Which is a good thing since it's completely pointless.

[h4rm0ny]

The VM part of it is, but the compile to Javascript component might overtake it's parent, because that is a useful feature. I've just started using TypeScript and being able to properly use classes and inheritence, strong typing (and a decent IDE) makes it a lot more suitable for large-scale development which is now happening. Compiling to Javascript from Dart is the same principle, so it has utility. But it does fly in the face of the aims of Dart overall which seeks to get the Dart VM implemented by other browser manufacturers but which is generally just seen as massively-fragmentary. So either Dart becomes primarily another way of writing Javascript like TypeScript or yes, it will die.

[LJRich]

Yaawwwwwwnnnn.

Wake me up when this is out of beta.

[Khaptain]

Re: Yaawwwwwwnnnn.

Google products are never out of Beta.

Beta is the term Google use to annonce that they have created something, do not have a clear idea of exactly what is should do, get some feedback, publically annonce the iminent release, re-invent the wheel for re-inventions sake , and "then" ShitCan the whole thing.

It will be interesting to see how long Google Drive lasts before they change its name.

Google are still in the Beta stage of Fanboi frenzy, wheras Apple have passed that stage long ago..

[rvt]

Re: Yaawwwwwwnnnn.

You better prepare for hibernation for quite some time....