Interesting new language offering from Google. Not sure where they expect it to fit in. Somewhere between GWT and Node.js (which is only possible because of Google's v8)?? Time will tell. http://www.dartlang.org/
I guess the idea behind this language that it is easier to run faster? By making simplifications, allowing more optimization?
- Egon Willighagen
Improving run-time performance is not their main goal. They are looking to optimize development cost and maintenance cost in a single language that is used for both server/client. I think they understand the reasons behind the growing popularity of Node.js (rapid development using a single web language), but see the applications people build with it as potential maintenance disasters...
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- Orion Jankowski
Just installed a new Arch system (native on Macbook) and was pleased to see that Open Babel is part of the standard KDE pacman package! Must be Marcus' doing.