As someone who gave a tech talk on Dart and how awesome it is, I wish I could back it as a tool of choice for web projects.
However, I even abandoned PHP for its fractured community in the past couple months. I don't see how I can back Dart when its creator is so publicly disinterested.
I apologize if that seems harsh, but it's just how I feel.
As someone interested in DART for web projects, I wish I could try it out. But it's tied to the Chrome ecosystem (it installs a local copy) and Chrome is not one of our corporate standards.
I don't understand this complaint. Dart is not tied to Chrome at all. The local copy of Chromium is just an optional development tool included with the SDK download. You don't have to use it.
You can use Dart with any modern browser. Use it with IE if that's your standard.
It may be a circular dependency problem, but when I start DART I get an error from my local workstation nanny that Chrome startup is blocked and then DART exits. So if there's a way to set DART to another tool than Chrome I can't seem to get there.
I haven't tried it with DART 1.9 so maybe that problem is no longer there.
However, I even abandoned PHP for its fractured community in the past couple months. I don't see how I can back Dart when its creator is so publicly disinterested.
I apologize if that seems harsh, but it's just how I feel.