3K views · Jul 19, 2019 · 1:06:20 · 0 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2019–2020
A Curry On talk by Lars Bak, known for V8 and Dart, on building a secure and robust IoT development platform. It discusses language and VM design choices for small devices.
Why Hacker News points people here: Referenced mainly for Bak's firsthand account of why the Dart VM never shipped in Chrome and for his IoT language design points.
“then the whole mobile shift happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome”HN comment, 2020
“minute 21”
Timestamp listing language design features at minute 21.
minute 21: this video * Object-oriented * Indentation-based syntax * Clean object model * Blocks with non-local returns * No eval and no runtime reflection * Tracing garbage collection
“then the whole mobile shift happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome”
Lars explains why Dart didn't make it into Chrome.
They certainly did find a new purpose for Dart outside of it being used in parts of their Ads platform, but Flutter, when is was the chrome experiment called sky, first started out using Javascript. The chrome guys decided to move on and look at several language before going with Dart, Swift may have been an option, if it was opensource at the time. Seems a reason for Dart's failure in the web space was mobile. Lar gave a talk last year about his and Kasper iot startup link he mentions why dart didn't make it into chrome, saying "then the whole mobile shift happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome" this video
“then the whole mobile shift happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome”
Lars on why Dart VM wasn't shipped in Chrome.
> my strong suspicion is the Chrome team killed the idea of shipping a Dart VM in Chrome Yeah in a video last year, Lars said "then the whole mobile shift happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome" this video
Lars Bak working on Dart for IoT.
And then Lars Bak left, I guess desilusioned with out things turned out for Dart, and is now doing "Dart for IoT" back in Denmark. this video
“Lars gave a talk last year and said the intent was to put dart vm in chrome”
Lars said Dart VM intent for Chrome was dropped.
Lars gave a talk last year and said the intent was to put dart vm in chrome, then the whole mobile thing happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome. this video
