Anyone know who is behind Dart? Would be interesting to know the motivation.
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Google's new Dart language. Looks like Java-y language. It has classes and types as well as first class functions like Javascript. Not sure about lexical scope and closures.
Yes another rewrite of a C-style language. Why do we need this again?
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Google trying to push a whole range of "works best in Chrome" new web apps?
nope, but give it a try here: http://try.dartlang.org/