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josephg on Oct 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dart language

> In fact, if VM is not much faster, why would they have it at all?

Google hasn't made dart so we can make our web apps faster. They made dart because there's a lot of java developers at google who believe that its easier to write monolithic javascript applications (GMail, G+, etc) using a language like java.

They believe it enough that they will try to convince others to follow suit.

icebraining on Oct 10, 2011 [–]

No, I was asking "why would they have [the VM] at all?"

If the VM wasn't (much) faster than the Dart-to-JS compiler, there would make no sense to have both.

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