Sorry man, accidental downvote. It was actually a +1.
I agree with you, the first impact with the language is terrible, the syntax is too reminiscent of Java. It seems that at Google Java is popular for web apps (GWT, Closure, ...). This must have had an influence.
I still fail to see what are the improvements over Javascript (while they managed to get the syntax worse). I guess a concurrency model, optional static typing, interfaces. Did I miss anything?
I agree with you, the first impact with the language is terrible, the syntax is too reminiscent of Java. It seems that at Google Java is popular for web apps (GWT, Closure, ...). This must have had an influence.
I still fail to see what are the improvements over Javascript (while they managed to get the syntax worse). I guess a concurrency model, optional static typing, interfaces. Did I miss anything?