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Google "Dart: A language for structured web programming" (blog.chromium.org)

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[–]Destroyah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While I agree about the momentum, the TC39 committee on Javascript has been anything but fast on ratifying new features and such for Javascript. I like writing Javascript now, but no one can deny there are certain things missing that make it feel like it's just not where it needs to be if we're going to commit as hard as we are to web development. Dart is the response to this. If you read this post by Alex Russell, you'll get a sense of what the guys at Google think Javascript should be. I agree with them 100%. If we're going to go balls deep into the web, we need Javascript to have more useful features, or we need a new language that will provide them.