Dart and D: features that could be used in D, D->dart for web programming

[thedeemon]

On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 10:27:41 UTC, Timothee Cour 
wrote:
> A1)
> Google's Dart (https://www.dartlang.org) looks like a very 
> promising
> replacement for javascript. It can compile to javascript to 
> ensure
> portability (but chromium runs it natively)

No, neither Chromium nor even Chrome run it natively. Only 
Dartium which is a separate browser.


> * cascade operations: they perform a series of operations on 
> the members of a single object:
> foo.bar(1)..baz(3)
> equivalent to:
> foo.bar(1)
> foo.baz(3)

In D we can use
with(foo) { bar(1); bar(3); }
Pretty close.

Dart looks like a very nice language for front-end web 
development indeed. If I was doing web-dev I would choose vibe.d 
+ Dart combo.

Some features like its constructors and short form of methods I 
would love to see in D too.

As for compiling D to Dart I'm not sure that's feasible. You'll 
have to chop off lower half of it.