[bhouston]

I am not saying Dart and CoffeeScript are comparable in terms of features -- not at all, rather I am saying that both Dart and CoffeeScript have served similar purposes in showing where the JavaScript language can evolve towards in the future.

[kybernetikos]

On the other hand, persuing the strategy that Google did with Dart distracted people and effort from the important task of actually improving javascript, so it may well have been a net negative.

[nathan_long]

If they'd succeeded in replacing it, there would have been no need to fix it. It's a big task, but I wish they'd succeeded and hope they (and/or others) try again.

Whether you like JS or don't, I think we can all agree that it stinks to have only one choice for client-side scripting.