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• Commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future
  This is a good point of view. Although I don't agree with everything you say, you are right one point: a PL should be either dynamic and untyped, or fully statically typed. In the sphere of web programming language, that...

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• Oliver Gorwits commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future

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• robsimmons.myopenid.com commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future

  Oliver: I don't think "a PL should be either dynamic and untyped, or fully statically typed" is the right lesson to be drawn from this. There's a lot of interesting research that has been done or is being done on languages that integrate static and dynamic type systems, going by names like "gradual typing" or "hybrid typing." This work both shows a lot of promise and is mature enough that ideas could really be incorporated into a production language.

  Here, the issue is that they add something which has superficial resemblance to this work but then, because the "type" stuff doesn't ac…

• robsimmons.myopenid.com commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future

  Oops, that was a reply to frenchy, not Oliver.

• Dennis commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future

  "Oh my, factories? it's like 1997 and design patterns all over again!)"

  and then

  "Via some type decoration mechanism, one could have mixed weak and strong typing..."

  You mock the use of design patterns then you recommend one - "decoration mechanism"

  Which is it - they're useful or they're not ??