Dart is like GWT

Blogs:

• '“Dart won’t replace Javascript” articles don’t get the point.'

• "First thoughts on Dart from a GWT developer"

• "A GWT Developer’s Reaction to Dart"

Tweets:

• "#dart is a lot like GWT, it's a JavaScript generation framework. #GOTOams"

• "Dart: I let you write client-side code that feels like C# or Java. Me: Hurray! Dart: That compiles to Javascript! Me: GWT? Is that you?"

• "ok, why #dart when #gwt was doing so well? Do I want to learn more gwt or stop and re-start with dart? http://bit.ly/pyBRWv"

• ""Hello World" in Google Dart, compiled into JavaScript: https://gist.github.com/1277224 - wow - reminds me of GWT. #dart #fail"

• "my prediction: the javascript produced by the #dart transpiler will be every bit as crappy as the javascript produced by GWT."

• "Prediction: Dart will go over well with GWT developers."

Fun tweets about the new Dart programming language

• "Dart proves two things. Google loves Java and Google hates JavaScript."

• "I'll give it this, #Dart certainly solves the problem of JavaScript not having anything to do with Java."

• "Dart: Putting the Java back in JavaScript."

• "WTF! Dart looks like Javascript mixed with Java. I don't see the point why something like a static keyword is required. #dart"

• "Javascript was Scheme uglied-up to look like Java; Dart is Smalltalk uglied-up to look like Java. Definitely progress."

Question:

• "So does Dart have no way to extend an existing class with new behavior? Back to Java-style utility classes? /cc @Gilad_Bracha"

Answer:

• "@avibryant mirrors are coming but no monkey patching."

• "http://www.dartlang.org/ - for when all your developers learned Java or C# at university and can't cope with real JavaScript #dart"

• "Dart syntax is a mix of javascript and scala http://dartinside.com/2011/live-from-dart-launch/"

• "hey guys, let's take the 'script' out of 'javascript' #dart"

• "Congrats dart, congrats. I now have something I like less then coffee script. Guys can we just get lua to compile to javascript."

• "An article on http://perl.org on why Dart isn't the language of the future. The perl guys know a thing about that http://blogs.perl.org/users/rafael_garcia-suarez/2011/10/why-dart-is-not-the-language-of-the-future.html"

• "Speaking of ugly looking languages (#dart), Perl is painful to write - it looks harsh to my increasingly Ruby-sensitive eyes."

• "Google, the 1990s called and they want their language back #dart #perl http://bit.ly/nCFCzQ"

• "#dart the love child of perl and java (but with operator overloading) #gotocon"

• "If C is Latin, FORTRAN is Greek, Lisp is Sanskrit, and Perl is English, then will Dart be Esperanto, Elvish, or Klingon?"

• "Would I use Dart instead of Python/Ruby/Scala? Probably not. But Google has positioned this as a goal to replace JS."

• "Do we really need another new programming language? http://goo.gl/ZyuNM I was just getting around to learning Python!"

• "Dart is to JavaScript as C# is to C++ http://rww.to/rbl9hg So bloated and runs at a 3rd the speed, no thanks :)"

• "So far, my hybrid JavaScript/C/C++ programmer brain is finding Dart to be really interesting. http://www.dartlang.org/docs/technical-overview/index.html"

• "At first glance: #Dart a hybrid of #Java and #Erlang with syntactic "noise" from C++/Java. I like "actors" though for concurrency @dart_lang"

• "#dart lang looks like C, which I try to forget after playing with ruby and coffeescript"

• "Dart is to Google as VBScript is to Microsoft.... #FAIL"

• "Why Google turns in $oogle? They follow Microsoft and their failures. VB => VBScript. Java => Dart. Well known story."

• "Wow. What a great read. 18k LoC DART Javascript framework code @ https://gist.github.com/1277224 really reminds me of Microsoft.Ajax.js files."

• "Google releasing Dart reminds me of when Microsoft released Bing—it's a solution to its creator's problems, not its audience's cc/@joehewitt"

• "Somebody needs to add a bet for "Microsoft adds Dart into IE" on http://longbets.org"

• "@Linkgoron #dart "does this solve the problems people have with JS?" - maybe google hopes it solves the problems it has with #Oracle, #java?"

• "It's like JavaScript and Groovy had a one-stand and conceived a child. #dart http://www.dartlang.org"

• "@glaforge looks like groovy with some boilerplate (at first sight btw) #Dart #google #gotocon"

• "There is so much Scala in Dart."

• "@dhh I had high hopes for Dart, but it seems like CS academics took over it."

• "Staying open-minded about Dart, but I I'll stick with JS and save my learning for more interesting langs like Scala, Haskell, Clojure, etc."

• "Spent last night trying to learn some Haskell, clearly I should have been learning Dart, or at least brushing up on some Java."

• "Dart looks like a pretty lame replacement for Javascript, but a pretty nice replacement for Java"