Google Releases Dart 1.1

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:25AM from the is-it-on-target dept.

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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better than javascript? by schneidafunk · 2014-01-16 08:36 · Score: 4, Interesting

My understanding is that Dart will not be really useful until it has native browser support on all browsers. I have not used it, so please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm curious to know if anyone who has experience with it can explain the benefits.

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1. Re:better than javascript? by LWATCDR · 2014-01-16 08:46 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  dart does have a compile to javascript option.
  
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