Google Releases Dart 1.1 161
rjmarvin writes "Google released version 1.1 of its Dart open-source web programming language today, with new features and improved tools. The Dart Editor is updated with improved debugging, code implementation and more descriptive toolkits, and new UDP (User Datagram Protocol) and documentation support command-line and server-side Dart applications. Google also highlighted benchmarks such as the Richards benchmark, where Dart 1.1 is running 25% faster than JavaScript, as part of the larger competition between Dart and JavaScript in creating more complex applications in the web development space."
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Re:25%?? (Score:5, Informative)
And it appears to be a misquote of TFA too: "Dart’s Javascript output continues to shine. Performance on the Richards benchmark is 25% better than the first release, making runtime comparable to the original JavaScript."
Re:If MS wrote dart for IE instead (Score:5, Informative)
Is Dart an open language spec?
The language spec is CCA 3 and ECMA standards tracked. The source code is BSD.
Javascript was not an immaculate conception of Berners-Lee, Torvalds and Stallman. It was a product of Mozilla, blessed by nobody and foisted on the world via the defacto browser of the day. It is also more than flawed enough to justify some competition.
The <script> tag has a "language" attribute for a reason, the curmudgeons of Slashdot notwithstanding.
Re:25%?? (Score:5, Informative)
Dart is really just the evolution of Google's GWT efforts, which they've been pretty good about supporting long-term and cultivating community contributions while also making a lengthy migration path to Dart
Re:25%?? (Score:5, Informative)
Dart team member here. The Dart project, like Chromium, is being run as a fully open source project [google.com] accepting patches from Googlers and non-Googlers alike. We've also begun the ECMA Standardization [chromium.org] process, meaning that like JavaScript we'll have a open standard that anyone can implement to. In terms of Dart users, here's a list [dartlang.org] of some. Hope that answers your questions!