[khaki54]

Dart is kind of speculative -- but it has the backing to be a big thing in a few years. And since it's the "anti-javascript" I think it adds more to a developers versatility than learning 5 javascript frameworks.

Our dev teams that have adopted it like it, and it's been very successful for them.

[spankalee]

I wouldn't call it "anti-JavaScript", but "sane JavaScript".

Dart's very similar to JavaScript in a lot of ways, especially most of the syntax. The main difference is that programs have a static shape, which makes tooling and reading a codebase much, much easier.

[automathematics]

Yeah but they just announced the removal of the VM from chrome and making it compile into JS, right? Did that change your opinion at all?

[spankalee]

Dart's always had to compile to JavaScript - the VM was probably never going into other browsers even if it went into Chrome. All of the developer productivity benefits are still there.