Chapter 5Dart and JavaScript
When Dart first came out, every major browser vendor, as well as the WebKit project, announced that they had absolutely no intention of embedding the Dart VM in their browsers. Many bristled at the very suggestion that a nonstandard language[9] be supported even obliquely. How another language was supposed to become a standard seemed a tricky question. Fortunately, Google had a plan.
In the grand tradition of CoffeeScript,[10] the Dart project includes a compiler capable of compiling Dart into JavaScript. The goal is that, even if Dart does not become an overnight standard, web developers tired of the quirks of JavaScript have a choice. We can now code in a modern language for the Web but still support the wide ...
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