I'm one of those programmers that does not hold great nostalgia for old
programs. I'm always willing to toss aside some part of my software toolkit if
something better
Recently I wrote a blog post about how I don't worry about Python losing users
[https://snarky.ca/why-i-dont-worry-about-python-losing-users/]. Within minutes I
had people asking about Python's usage, which
I just had a need to read two files that were line-delimited lists of domains,
consolidate the data, and then output the domains sorted and all lowercased to a
new file. It took
When I posted on Google+ about Python 3.4.1 being released
[https://plus.google.com/107826054989536826392/posts/XW1ajDL3vQh] it led to
various comments on the post and it made me realize how
TL;DR: What do you get when you design a dynamic programming language that is fast, familiar to programmers, and meant to compile down to JavaScript? Dart.
Why does Dart exist?
Dart is