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Lars Bak - The Making of a Secure and Robust IoT Development Platform

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Cited on HN 5 times, 2019–2020, never outright recommended score 0
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Referenced mainly for Bak's firsthand account of why the Dart VM never shipped in Chrome and for his IoT language design points.

A Curry On talk by Lars Bak, known for V8 and Dart, on building a secure and robust IoT development platform. It discusses language and VM design choices for small devices.

“then the whole mobile shift happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome” (HN, 2020)

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@sebe Mar 2020 Cites it
on HN thread Flutter and Dart, or how to quickly build a mobile app without losing your hair
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They certainly did find a new purpose for Dart outside of it being used in parts of their Ads platform, but Flutter, when is was the chrome experiment called sky, first started out using Javascript. The chrome guys decided to move on and look at several language before going with Dart, Swift may have been an option, if it was opensource at the time. Seems a reason for Dart's failure in the web space was mobile. Lar gave a talk last year about his and Kasper iot startup [link] he mentions why dart didn't make it into chrome, saying "then the whole mobile shift happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome" [this video]
Lars explains why Dart didn't make it into Chrome.
@pjmlp Mar 2020 Cites it
on HN thread Smalltalk-87
And then Lars Bak left, I guess desilusioned with out things turned out for Dart, and is now doing "Dart for IoT" back in Denmark. [this video]
Lars Bak working on Dart for IoT.
@sebe Jun 2020 Cites it
on HN thread Featherweight Go
Lars gave a talk last year and said the intent was to put dart vm in chrome, then the whole mobile thing happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome. [this video]
Lars said Dart VM intent for Chrome was dropped.

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