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Dart is Google's JavaScript. JavaScript was developed exclusively by Netscape and forced upon the web because of their dominance. Everyone agrees in hindsight that it was bad to do it that way. And now today Google is attempting the same thing.


>Everyone agrees in hindsight that it was bad to do it that way.

I, for one, don't. Better Javascript, with all its warts, than the W3C taking 10 years to create some standard language that was a comitee monstrocity (as they used to do a lot, until HTML5).


> Dart is Google's JavaScript. JavaScript was developed exclusively by Netscape and forced upon the web because of their dominance. Everyone agrees in hindsight that it was bad to do it that way.

This is true only for very limited values of "everyone".




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