Dart: Whaddya think?

[Forboding Angel]

I'm liking what I am seeing, and if I can realistically create apps using this, I may be in heaven.

PHP is awesome because it's powerful as hell and you can realistically do just about anything (programmatically) that you like. Of course it was not particularly means to be a front end sort of thing which is why we rely on stuff like ajax, html and css to make what php does pretty.

From what I can tell, Dart seems to be more designed at being back AND frontend along with having a syntax that doesn't make me hate myself and the power and pizazz that JavaScript allows for (I'm not so great with JS, never care for the language, always seemed ass-backwards to me).

Anyway, while I'm actually qualified to talk about something like this (scary, I know), because I've been doing php development since php3, so I've been around a while and done some pretty epic shit, but when I saw Dart, my nerd side got kind of excited... What do the rest of you web programmers think?

[Anarchid]

I looked it up recently, but could see no rationale on the design decisions they made on Dart. With Go, at least some parts are obvious, and others - documented (and it has cool-sounding scary features like the option monad).

Having the same language for front and backend sounds kinda queasy, though that might be because i never bothered with java applets against jsp. Does it allow you to write botnets?

[Forboding Angel]

hehe maybe ;p

What you say is exactly what caught my attention. It seemed like a melding of several languages (one used for backend, and others for frontend) into a single unified language. It's a neat idea anyway.

[Petah]

It looks good to me. I like the better typing support, and classical inheritance.

I can also see many benefits in a shared server/client language.
However for now I will only be using the client side, as our backends are already too well entrenched.

The best part is the JS converter, so we can use it now.