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Google deliberately opened up dart development early. I thing that was a good thing. They could have kept it closed and released it today, it's roughly as mature as type script seems to be. Would you have been happier with that?


> Would you have been happier with that?

Yes. Google (and others) need to stop releasing half-baked products.

You release something half-baked, even if it gets up to speed down the road, people will still have perceptions of it being half-baked. The above exchange is typical.


I heard a kid complaining about Java being slow yesterday. People remember their first experiences for a long, long time after they stop being true.


Well, Java is slow. The JVM startup times are what people notice.


You're assuming he was making a nuanced argument and not just flashing gang signs.


This kid had a slow experience with Java a long, long time ago?


He's 19 and been programming for one year.


Imagine if Linus Torvalds shared your point of view.


We'd have a rocking *BSD community now, with all that Linux mindshare going there. Nice.


Nah, we'd have another POSIX OS, only worse than Linux (probably). Plus they attract different kinds of mindshare.


Opening it early was maybe fine, opening it early with no coherent interop strategy and then taking a year to put one together seems like it could have been a mistake.




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