Episode 12: Dart

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News

• Raspberry Pi
• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/raspberry-pi-linux-distro-released-but-the-35-computer-faces-new-delays.ars
• California could be the second state to allow autonomous cars?
• http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1073910_california-proposes-rules-for-autonomous-cars
• Stanford Online Courses
• http://www.ml-class.org/course/auth/welcome

Tool of the Biweek

• Jason:  Disk Usage Programs
• WinDirStat (windows) http://windirstat.info/
• Disk Usage Analyzer (ubuntu)
• Disk Inventory X (OS X) http://www.derlien.com/
• Patrick: Spelunky
• http://spelunkyworld.com/

Dart

History

• Designed to replace javascript
• Evolution of Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

Uses

• Still experimental
• Dartendo (NES Emulator in Dart): http://dartendo.appspot.com

Features

• Runs in browser (currently only chrome)
• Can be compiled to javascript (frog)
• Similar to java
• Class-based
• (Optionally) statically typed.
• Java containers (List, Map, Set)
• Coroutines (light isolate)
• Multiple threads in one process
• Multithreading (heavy isolate)
• Multiple processes

Strengths

• Class-based object oriented paradigm
• Classes, Interfaces,
• Has option for static or dynamic typing

Weaknesses

• Frog compiler is inefficient
• No widespread adoption