IDE support?

[Axel Rauschmayer]

One thing I liked about the Dash/Dart email was that it explicitly stated the goal of tool/IDE support (this is the only area where I miss Java when programming JavaScript). Is there something corresponding among the Harmony goals [1]? (5) Support a statically verifiable, object-capability secure subset(?)

For IDE-support we already have class literals in ES.next. What is still missing? Type guards? Will those make it into ES.next?

I find that there is a lot of cool stuff going into ES.next which will make it highly competitive with whatever Google can possibly come up with. However, a good Dart IDE can do much to increase Dart’s appeal. On the other hand, the market for a good JavaScript IDE is large (as in “unfragmented”) and only becoming larger, so maybe we’ll eventually get there.

[1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:harmony

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