Why Not a Bytecode VM?(dartlang.org)

29 pointsby megaman82115 anni fa2 comments

http://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-not-bytecode/

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There is one more reason not mentioned in the article: creating a bytecode VM would mean giving up Dart's biggest competitive advantage to Coffeescript, the language currently sucking up Dart's oxygen in the memesphere. With a viable bytecode spec to compile to, Coffeescript would be on an equal footing with Dart as a 'real' language.

moreyes15 anni fa

Dart's biggest competitive advantage is that it has teams building compilers, VMs, libraries, apps and tools. It is not just about syntax sugar. It is also about better debugging and collaborating, improved development cycles and so on.