Dart enters top 20 on the TIOBE index

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Interesting, since Dart wasn't really on my radar. Does anyone know if it can be embedded easily in other things? EG: If I'm building a server side Go app, could I embed the Dart Virtual Machine in it to run some code? (say I want to allow runtime execution of untrusted code from a client.)

Started digging in on the dart website, but since Browsers are such a difficult, complicated thing, I'm not sure the VM meant for browsers will be appropriate for my application (e.g.: many assumptions are made during runtime might be a problem if there is no webpage.)

Dart has a standalone VM very much like node.js. You can embed the VM with the embedder API, or build a native extension to the VM (the API might be the same actually, I've never used it). Another approach would be to use sockets to communicate between your Go process and Dart process. This would work well in a Docker setup.

Wow, Swift comes in at #19. Pretty spectacular for a language that's only a few months old.

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