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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.
The same problem that there would be with lots of people if Microsoft started suddenly introducing their own "standards" again.
Microsoft does not just "introduce" standards, MS strong arms everybody to adopt those MS proprietary standards. MS does not do this to improve technology, but to preserve their abusive monopoly. MS does not play nice with anybody else, and never has.
There's still some issues because of all that bs 10 years ago, but now it has almost gone away.
OOXML was ten years ago? Silverlight was ten years ago?
I am glad to see MS "introduce" all they standards they want, as long as they standards are fully open; but they never are.