Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

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On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 10:04:11 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
> Very dark as Angular team decided to look for Typescript 
> instead[0].

It isn't very dark though, they cooperate with MS to build 
atscript features into Typescript instead. The two dialect were 
always meant to be merged at some point. So they decided to merge 
early. A good idea, actually.

> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/03/05/angular-2-0-built-on-typescript.aspx
>
> Now with Dart team giving up on their VM, Dart becomes just yet 
> another language that transpiles to JavaScript.

Yes, although you can run the dartvm outside the browser, not 
sure how much love it will receive though.

> So, it will just fade way in the sea of JavaScript wannabe 
> replacements.

Maybe, but Google is using it for Google Ads. Which is their 
primary business? Still, a bit early to say what happens next.