JavaScript is one of the most widely used scripting languages on the Internet, as can offer the interactivity that is needed for viewing Web content as it is processed by the user’s browser. Moreover, it is an event-driven language which allows certain code to associate a certain action of the client.
Giant Google recently introduced an alternative language to JavaScript, and which gave its name to Dart and many had speculated about the name of the language created by Google, as an alternative to JavaScript.
In October 2010, an internal document that announced the company’s own language would be calling Dash (see here). However, Google recently announced that it had been changed to Dart – Designed to an object-oriented.
Dart is a flexible programming language and structured very similar to Java or C + +, with many advantages gained from scripting languages such as javascript.
According to Lars Bak from Google, Dart is a class-based language, directed to the Web application development and support for large-scale projects. It’s simple, efficient, scalable and powerful.
“Developed with the goals of simplicity, efficiency, and scalability, the Dart language combines powerful new language features with familiar language constructs into a clear, readable syntax.”
Besides the simplicity in the structure of applications programming, language Dart is also simple to debug level. The language allows the programmer to add variables without the need to define the type of data and solve some scalability problems that usually occur when using JavaScript.
Currently no browser supports this language, but support is planned for the same in Chrome. The code can be executed on a virtual machine or on native Dart’s own javascript engine (using a compiler that can translate the code in Javascript Dart).
Google also released a programming IDE and some sample scripts for programmers to start developing some applications based on your programming language.
Now here’s the million dollar question. Will this google dart catch on?
Homepage: Dart – Googles Programming Language