Is anyone out there using Dart to talk to Cesium?
I’ve got a project that uses Dart to talk to WebGL directly, and I’m considering moving it over to Cesium. I’ll do stuff in Javascript if I have to, but given a choice I’d much rather stick with my Dart code.
If you’ve already headed down the Dart interop path for Cesium work, I’d be interested in hearing your experiences…
-mpg
Hi Michael,
I’m not aware of anyone using Dart with Cesium, but we’d love to hear your experience if you give it a try.
The only interop projects I can think of are for gwt and iOS (port).
Patrick
For what it worth, right now I’m just wrapping a single Dart class around a bunch of Cesium functions that I need and it’s working fine.
Down the road, I’ll likely drop it down to provide 1:1 correspondence between the JS functions and the Dart wrappers, but unless there’s a way to do automated discovery of the JS APIs it’ll have to be hand-rolled and limited to those functions I actually need.
-mpg
A gwt wrapper would be very cool as well. 
Dennis
Dennis, there already is: http://richkadel.github.io/cesium-gwt/
Here’s a guest blog on it by the maintainer, Rich Kadel: http://cesiumjs.org/2014/11/03/Developing-Cesium-Applications-in-Java-with-Cesium-GWT/
As for Dart, I don’t know much about dart wrappers but I imagine it’s a very manual process. An open source project that attempts a 1:1 mapping might be a good way to crowd-source the problem as people could just open pull requests whenever they need to add a new wrapper or two.
How cool is that!
Thanks for the link Matthew!
Will definitly give that a try.