I’m amazed at how the JS communities are already bashing Dart; even before it gets out. I can see lots of good reasons to make a new language; new languages appear almost every day, a few of them make it to real use, but most disappear. No reason to barf at them for that, if [...]

Here we will be blogging live from the Dart Launch at GOTO Århus Conference. Updates will also be available by following @DartInside.  Keep the link to this post and check back monday 9:01 am, Central Europe / 12:01 am, San Francisco / 12:31 pm, Bangalore / [...]

We will not know until next week, but I can’t help myself. Today I’ll make a guess as to what Dart’s type system will look like. Enjoy!

As has been mentioned several places on the Internet, it can most likely be assumed that Dart will have optional types, which is not a novel idea since [...]

There are a couple of interesting profiles that we know are behind Dart; or at least somehow part of the Dart effort, and perhaps knowing who they are can give us some hints as to what Dart will be. Here are some relevant background on Lars Bak, Gilad Bracha, Kasper Lund and Mark Miller.

Lars [...]

I am very much looking forward to see Dart launched at GOTO monday next week. The most interesting question — in my humble opinion — is how it will be positioned in relation to other languages and technologies. There are several options as I see it:

Is it another web programming language? Is [...]