SHAPING THE FUTURE OF WEB DEVELOPMENT

If we take a look at our JavaScripts, we got to be honest and admit it is a real mess. True, maybe we lack some experience in writing clean structured JavaScript, but it is also inherent to the language it self and the fact that it is poorly tooled (writing, testing, debugging) especially for large-scale projects. To address this problem Google developed a new web programming language called Dart. The goal of Dart is to replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development. The syntax is very similar to Java and you can run and debug it in Eclipse (on the Dart-VM). When running Dart code in a web browser, the Dart-code is pre-compiled into JavaScript. It looks really nice. Even the Angular guys ported their flagship to Dart (AngularDart).