JavaScript

It’s impossible to deny that immutability is a hot topic in programming, especially front-end programming. Libraries like Immutable.js and other concepts like unidirectional data flow have argued it’s easier to reason about data when it doesn’t change underneath you:

In this article we will integrate Google Maps with an AngularDart application. The app itself will be very simple: it calculates the great circle distance (the shortest distance on the surface of a sphere) between two selected markers on the map.

This is a story about an experiment to compile the Dart language using the LLVM compiler framework. On its face this is pretty pointless, since