ecmascript_simd

They list Intel's contribution extensively in the post. I'm not sure why you'd assume they are trying to deceive anyone. > Intel has been contributing to Chakra, the JavaScript engine for Microsoft Edge > Some examples of Intel’s direct contributions to Chakra’s JIT compiler include better instruction selection and scheduling. > [they] also helped us identify opportunities of missed redundant instruction elimination, and inline overhead reduction. > Intel engineers are collaborating with us closely to implement Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) [1], a future ECMAScript proposal, in Chakra > Intel recently contributed an optimization to improve navigation (load) time for pages containing several inline elements, optimizations to reduce DOM parse times for text-area elements, and participated in investigations and root cause analysis

Good for lulz, but this is really uninformed, if not made up from whole cloth. The influence of Dart on ES6 and 7 apart from SIMD (John McCutchan shout-out, John did the Dart work and then worked on https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd; I had some small helpful role to do with the project involving Mozilla and Intel, too) and the courage and validation -- not the idea, which pre-dates Dart -- of giving the for (let...) loop a binding per iteration in ES6 as in Dart, there has been no influence or help from Dart. Modules in ES6 have nothing to do with Dart, and the work started in 2010, well before Dart ("Dash") leaked. Classes too pre-date Dart, in some ways they go back to JS2/ES4 of the 1999-2003 era, and ES4 of the 2006-8 era. CoffeeScript owes a lot to Ruby and Python, of course, and I did design-champion fat arrow functio

I think Dart is sort of like CoffeeScript in that it was an experiment and influenced a lot of JavaScript standards people. A lot of the features of CoffeeScript are being integrated into JS with ES6 and ES7. The same is actually happening to the unique features of Dart such as typing and SIMD and better modules. Typing is so cool: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:typed_objects SIMD is amazing: https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd So, thank you Dart for showing us the way! My only worry is that the innovators behind Dart are going to be stuck on the Dart project while JavaScript gains their features and even more momentum. I would suggest that they let Dart die and not be stuck with it for years after it has stopped being relevant -- that would be a waste of their talents as they did really see what the future