D to ASM.js vs D to Dart (VM)

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 16.05.2014 21:53, schrieb Joakim:
> On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 14:15:20 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Mind you, how many of the big "be all end all"-technologies that have
>> been hyped over the years are really good (including community base
>> projects)? JS, Java, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, iOS, Android ...? With good I
>> mean really good, not omnipresent.
>
> Agree with you on all of those, except for iOS.  I know many of us hate
> how much its success is driven by marketing, but it appears to be a very
> solid product technically.  At least that's what I read, I haven't
> bought an Apple product in a decade because of their crazy stance on
> patents and how closed they've become.
>
> However, just looking at iOS technically, even the latest iPad Air and
> iPhone 5s run on just 1 GB of RAM and still regularly outperform Android
> devices, which is crazy considering Android superphones/tablets have up
> to 3 GBs of RAM these days.  iOS devices repeatedly benchmark as the
> least laggy for touch.  Nick may not believe in people voting with their
> wallets, but iOS devices have garnered Apple a couple hundred billion in
> profits so far:
>
> http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-and-Apple-reportedly-earned-87.9-of-the-smartphone-market-profits-for-the-last-6-years_id54030
>
>
> I suppose you can hate on Obj-C, but that's not really iOS.  The latest
> release got bogged down in all the bling, but that's more like Apple
> heaped too much icing on top: the cake is still great.
>
> Why isn't iOS good?

No, when compared against what Symbian OS could do with less resources.