Google’s Dart programming language, envisioned as a JavaScript rival, has for the first time cracked a monthly Top 50 list of the most popular programming languages. Launched in late 2011 ...

The answer, for Google, was to go off and create its own homebrewed solution. That solution is Dart, a "class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications." ...

In the Google specification document, the company describes the language as a class-based, single-inheritance, pure object-oriented programming language. It's optionally typed and supports reified ...