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On 03/22/2013 05:39 PM, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> My main worry is if Dart and a browser is really more robust than a
> GtkAda or QtAda application.  Our funding customer for the project is
> confident that Dart and a browser is at least sufficiently robust.  And
> they like/want the separation in core services (Ada server), user
> interface looks (HTML) and user interface implementation (Dart).
>


For sure it isn't a more "robust" solution, but it is _much_ simpler to
get going on multiple platforms. Getting a GtkAda/QtAda application up
and running on everything ranging from Windows XP/Vista/7/8 (32/64),
OS X, Linux and *BSD is probably no simple feat. Getting Firefox/Chrome
to run on all those operating systems is dead simple.

With Dart Google is pushing towards a more sane development environment
for the web. So far the result is very nice. Sure it is still a bit
rough around the edges, but it's already much better than the insanity
that is JavaScript. When you find yourself doing stuff like this:

var userList = new List<User>();

and you then have Dart yelling at you if you try to add something else
than a User to the userList, then you know that web-programming is
moving in the right direction.

Or how about a typedef:

typedef void Subscriber(Map json);

No more bouncing around a billion unknown callbacks! You can actually
give these puppies a name and a signature. Very nice.

The days of assigning random shit to random shit are finally coming to
and end in web-programming.

-- 
Thomas L�cke | thomas@12boo.net | http://12boo.net