Dart back end for Ceylon

[tosh]

https://github.com/jvasileff/ceylon-dart

[mikkom]

What's the point if Ceylon already compiles to Javascript?

[randomThoughts9 → mikkom]

I can think of at least 3 reasons:

- it's a fun project, if you're into that sort of thing

- dart has a VM, so you can run server side applications on it

- more bragging points for ceylon, as it confirms their design as a VM independent language

Now, it would be fun to compare the javascript code produced by ceylon directly with the one produced by the the dart compiler.

[bpicolo → randomThoughts9]

You can run server side applications in JavaScript too.

[chrisfarms → mikkom]

Pretty sure Dart has it's own VM. It just also happens to compile to Javascript.

[zzzips → chrisfarms]

Dart is soon another abandonware from Google now that they endorsed TypeScript.

[Mikeb85 → mikkom]

As with many other things, why not?

[zzzips]

Ceylon is such a mess. Kotlin won the "alternative JVM race" anyway.

[zzzips]

They don't even support Android, and now they prioritize Dart. HAHAHAHAHA.