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Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart

Posted by Soulskill on from the get-off-my-lawn-dart dept.

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from El Reg: "Google has built a brand-new programming language for 'structured web programming,' one that appears to be suited to browser-based apps. Two of the search giant's engineers will discuss Dart, Google's new language, at the Goto international software development conference next month. News of the new language was posted to the Goto website. There aren't yet any technical details on Dart but the bios of the two Googlers presenting at Goto strongly suggest a bent towards programming for the web and browser."

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  1. Re:Great, another fucking language to learn by knuthin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those other 22 could all go away.

    https://www.xkcd.com/927/
    You think?

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    Some apps are WYSIWYG. Some others are WYSIWTF.
  2. So what does this do different? by Evangelion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm kind of confused as to where google is going these days.

    Is this just a side effect of hiring too many bored CS graduates -- put enough in a room together and they come up with their own languages?

    I just can't see this being used outside of google -- Web Programming is largely a solved problem, and there are already a plethora of options. Since MS and Apple won't touch anything that comes out of Google, it'll only ever be relevant on the server side -- which is where there are already too many options.

    Unless this does something radical -- and judging by what Go was, I doubt it -- this will probably be a niche thing they use internally.