[derengel]

How practical is today to start with Dart for web apps instead of Javascript? speaking from someone who doesn't know JS.

[mythz]

It's very familiar if you're a C# or Java developer and provides a rich, clean and consistent API library which abstracts away JavaScript and DOM apis: https://api.dartlang.org/apidocs/channels/stable/dartdoc-vie...

The code-labs provide pretty good, practical walk-thru's: http://io2014codelabs.appspot.com/static/codelabs/dart-start...