{"id":3772,"date":"2011-09-15T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T20:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2011-09-16T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:11:16","slug":"google-javascript-and-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/google-javascript-and-dart\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, JavaScript, and Dart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/4355\">Lambda<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/4355\">\n<p>A leaked Google memo, <a href=\"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/NUMTTrKj\">The Future of JavaScript<\/a>, from November 2010 is being circulated around the Internet, outlining Google&rsquo;s supposed technical strategy for Web programming languages.  Google plans to improve JavaScript, while also creating a competitor to JavaScript, Dart (ex-Dash), that it hopes will be the new <em>lingua franca<\/em> of the Web.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apple and Microsoft already control the primary languages for their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2011-09-16): JavaScript creator <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2982949\">Brendan Eich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2982949\"><p>A Dart to JS compiler will never be &ldquo;decent&rdquo; compared to having the Dart VM in the browser. Yet I guarantee you that Apple and Microsoft (and Opera and Mozilla, but the first two are enough) will <em>never<\/em> embed the Dart VM.<\/p>\n<p>So &ldquo;Works best in Chrome&rdquo; and even &ldquo;Works only in Chrome&rdquo; are new norms promulgated intentionally by Google. We see more of this fragmentation every day. As a user of Chrome and Firefox (and Safari), I find it painful to experience, never mind the political bad taste.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lambda: A leaked Google memo, The Future of JavaScript, from November 2010 is being circulated around the Internet, outlining Google&rsquo;s supposed technical strategy for Web programming languages. Google plans to improve JavaScript, while also creating a competitor to JavaScript, Dart (ex-Dash), that it hopes will be the new lingua franca of the Web. Apple and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}