Elm vs Dart

[D Martin]

Your comments are welcome.

Thanks

[Mike Watson]

Shouldn't you be asking this on the Clojure group? (Elm vs. Clojure.) When I finally get around to trying web programming with a functional language, I'll start with Clojure.

On Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:56:18 AM UTC-7, D Martin wrote:

Your comments are welcome.

Thanks

[Dirk Detering]

Am 04.04.2013 18:56 schrieb "D Martin" <marti...@gmail.com>:
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> Your comments are welcome.

Ok.
Elm is a tree, living, made of wood.
Dart is a pointed projectile, dead, made of metal and plastic nowadays.
So in a confrontation Elm vs. Dart it seems that Dart is on the win in long term view, as Dart injures Elm but not vice versa.
Elm is sufficient in itself while Dart is not. The latter depends on some player bringing it into motion, and it depends on his or her abilities if Dart indeed hits Elm, otherwise Elm stays unharmed.
Dart is fun, Elm is not (why should a tree be fun?!). Many practical things can be created out of Elm. Dart can be dangerous for people if not played under secure conditions.
So far on a quick glance.

If this is not what you meant to read, be assured that this is not what I meant to write in a mailing list about a programming language.

If you want to hear more serious comments from the people here around, then it would have been better to give more input, for example a bunch of concrete questions to start with.
They are busy engineers, not dogs waiting lazily yawning in a court until someone throws a totally fleshless bone in between, to watch them play catch up for it.

Tl;dr :  Elm vs. Dart?  Yes .... Where's your thesis?

KR
Det

[D Martin]

Thank you for the tip Mike

[D Martin]

I understand Dirk,

Sorry for that to everybody who might feel offended or anything for that

"They are busy engineers, not dogs waiting lazily yawning in a court until someone throws a totally fleshless bone in between, to watch them play catch up for it."

2013/4/5 D Martin <marti...@gmail.com>

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[Paul Brauner]

I'm not sure what you're asking for. Both languages compile to Javascript, that's one thing they have in common. But appart from that Dart is much closer to Javascript than it is to Elm in spirit: it is imperative and object-oriented.

One thing though: there's a dart/html preprocessor called web ui (http://www.dartlang.org/articles/web-ui/) which sort of implements reactive programming in Dart. If you like Elm you may want to look at this.

Paul