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Google Ports Box2D Demo To Dart
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.
Are you talking about the same Bing that came pre-installed as the default (un-changeable without rooting) search option on my wife's Verizon Samsung Fascinate? The same Bing that when I type something into the browser to search expecting google results like my unbranded Samsung Galaxy S does (nearly the same damn phone), I instead get Bing results that have nearly NO RELEVANCE to what I was searching for?
And that's the gods honest truth.
An example...
"teamhacksung ics build 14 galaxy s"
This update for build 14 was just done yesterday.
First result on Google: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21498197#post21498197
Exactly what I wanted
First result on Bing: http://galaxy-s.t-mobile.com/samsung-galaxy-s2?cm_mmc_o=Vzbp+mwzygt*VAygtzlw*VyBpAgf+mA55Byf*VyBpAgf+mA55Byf
Second result: http://www.hdtechvideo.com/forum/index.php?threads/rom-teamhacksungs-ics-port-build-14.48/
Third result: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20794402
Right forum and thread, but takes me to page 716, where as google takes me to the FIRST page where the info, downloads, etc are.
And this is just one example.. I've had TONS that were way worse with Bing not returning even CLOSE to what I was looking for, and google returning exactly what I wanted in the first few results (typically the first few are so close in terms to each other any one of them would work)
Yes, you can run it from the command line via the Dart VM without translating it to Javascript. Haven't tried #!/bin/dart style invocation though - but being open source someone is probably working towards it if it doesn't yet support it.
I've used Dart a bit and it really is a great language - not so different that it takes ages to learn, but IMHO a big improvement on both Java and Javascript.
When he talks about posting pattern he probably means all of those accounts, not this single post. Kinda like this.
a) Fresh made account - check
b) "Thoughtful" irst post with same timestamp as the article without subscription to help him - check, already third one for this acc
c) Baseless hate towards Google - check, how baseless is explained in the comments.
And then
java: dalvik <=> j++
javascript: dart <=> vbscript
html: nacl <=> activex
opengl: renderscript <=> directx
Now I'm not claiming that Google is the same as Microsoft, I don't think this. But honestly, I still have some concerns.