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jbdeboer

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I work on AngularJS for Google.

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The article starts with the assertion "We need Javascript". Adding Dart to the mix makes that assertion less obvious.

The math in this post is funky and one-sided.

Is $3k/mo a good price to pay for a place to live? To answer that question you would need to know the alternatives:

* how much does it cost to rent the same apartment? * if you have $100,000 on hand, what is the ROI of other investments you could make?

Whether buying your home is a good idea is much more involved than a short blog post and always comes down to individual circumstances.

We've been working with the dart2js team to reduce the size and they have been making incremental improvements. AngularDart is smaller this week than last :-)

Both 170KB and 70.5KB are still pretty huge for trivial apps, though.

Take a look at the pull request queue on Github. We've been focused on 1.2. There are a lot of new features and proposals that we'll pick up now that the release is out the door.

I'd be interested to know how they are collecting their data. Rent prices are very hard track, short of asking tenants how much they pay.

You can monitor Craigslist, but then you are tracking rental advertisements instead of what tenants are actually paying.

The author is arguing against learning new languages / concepts by rewriting existing apps.

I'd argue that rewriting existing apps is a great way to learn a new language. By removing the app-specific learning, you can focus on the language. Even better, since you have two implementations of the same app, comparing language concepts is easy.