Google hopes to upset JavaScript's dominance by introducing a new language, Dart.Dart is designed to be simpler, more familiar, and faster than JavaScript, and Google one day wants to see it ...

TIOBE’s latest ranking of programming languages suggests Dart is making progress at JavaScript’s expense, but other data show that’s not the case ...

Google is developing a new scripting language for the Web that the company hopes will eventually supplant JavaScript. The language, which is called Dart, will be presented next month during an ...

Large JavaScript Web apps can be hard to develop and slow to run. Google's Dart language may offer a solution to address both of those issues.

Dart is not coming to Chrome, Google announced today. The lingua franca of the web is JavaScript, but with Dart, Google launched a project that effectively aimed to replace JavaScript. In Google's ...

Google claims Dart runs faster than vanilla JavaScript, in many cases even after it’s been compiled to JavaScript, but still asserts the fastest performance comes from running Dart in its native VM.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google long has been a firm believer that JavaScript, the programming language used to build Web apps such as Google Maps and Gmail, could shoulder a much heavier computing load.

Dart has managed to make minor inroads with programmers, if only as an intermediate language for writing fast and efficient JavaScript code. In October, Dart cracked the top 20 of the Tiobe Index ...

Google has launched a preview version of a new Web programming language, called Dart, which the company’s engineers hope will address some of the shortcomings of the widely used JavaScript language.

Strong backing for JavaScript means Google's alternative programming language won't have an easy time finding a foothold on the Web. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...