At its heart, Dart is a conservative programming language. It was not designed to champion bold new ideas, but rather to create a predictable and stable programming environment. The language was created at Google in 2011, with the goal of unseating JavaScript as the language of the web.
JavaScript is a very flexible language, but its lack of a type system and misleadingly simple grammar can make projects very difficult to manage as they grow. Dart aimed to fix this by finding a halfway point between the dynamic nature of JavaScript and the class-based designs of Java and other object-oriented languages. The language uses a syntax that will be immediately familiar to any developer who already knows a C-style ...