Dart, as you may know, is an open source language introduced by Google in 2011 with the goal of eventually replacing JavaScript.

Dart may be better than JavaScript (I would hope so) but that doesn't mean it's a silver bullet. If we create a standardized bytecode, it doesn't matter what language produced it. That's what I want.

JavaScript, the linchpin of scripted websites, is not a perfect programming language. Google prefers its own language, Dart.

Large JavaScript Web apps can be hard to develop and slow to run. Google’s Dart language may offer a solution to address both of those issues. JavaScript is often used in a way that was never ...

Let’s begin with the good news. Google’s Dart is a modern, full-featured tool designed by grabbing the best features of Java, JavaScript, and C.

Dart, unlike anyone's JavaScript engine at present, supports a processor technology called SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) that economizes chip work by doing the same work on multiple ...

Google’s Dart language hasn’t become the JavaScript killer it was intended to be. That said, Google still uses it a great deal internally for web-app-related projects, such as AdSense.

In one test of snapshotting, a 55,000-line Dart program loaded in 60 milliseconds compared to 640 milliseconds without it, Bak said. A conventional JavaScript program would load in comparable time ...

Google ultimately wants Dart to replace JavaScript as the open web browser programming language. In a leaked memo, Google outlines the (apparently) unfixable problems with JavaScript, how Dart ...

Google has been pushing the performance of Dart’s generated JavaScript for months, so it’s impressive to see that it is still making big gains, even after releasing a stable version 1.0 ...

The Dart developers themselves created a tool that converts Dart code into JavaScript, so it can be used by all browsers. This is where the work on Dart will continue.