Google Ports Box2D Demo To Dart

Posted by Unknown on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:18PM from the match-stick-pyramid dept.

mikejuk writes with an excerpt from an article at i-programmer about a neat graphics demo written in Dart: "One of the difficulties in getting a new computer language accepted by a wider audience is that there is doubt that it is real. Is it a toy language that just proves a concept or can it do real work? In the case of Dart, which is Google's replacement for JavaScript, the development is speeding ahead at a rate that is impressive but worrying. To prove that Dart is already a language that can be used, we now have a port of the well known 2D physics engine Box2D, the one Angry Birds uses, to Dart." Box2D has previously been ported to Javascript. Source is available at Google Code (under the Apache license). Note that you'll need Chromium to run the demos.

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Re:Not again! by bhagwad · 2012-01-16 15:26 · Score: 5, Insightful

So how does a company create something better than the standards? Or are you perhaps implying that standards once set are the best for ever and ever? It's not as if Google is DROPPING support for Javascript. That would be...outrageously stupid. What exactly is your problem here?
Re:Not again! by bhagwad · 2012-01-16 15:37 · Score: 5, Insightful

1. Google isn't claiming that this is the new standard. If they did, they would just drop support for Javascript

2. Insisting on a consensus before every new technological upgrade would be frustratingly slow and the whole process can be held back by one individual. That's not how technology improves.