Opportunity missed by Python ?

[Westley Martínez]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:07:09PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, candide <candide at free.invalid> wrote:
> > Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript.
> > So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python
> > at Google ;) ?
> >
> 
> Python, as I found out to my detriment, is practically impossible to
> sandbox effectively. Any language that hopes to gain full traction in
> a browser-based environment MUST be secure against scripts gaining too
> much control over the browser chrome.
> 
> Also, Dart is looking to support (optional) strict typing, which
> Python doesn't do. That's a fairly major performance enhancement.
> 
> ChrisA

You mean static typing?