Google DART Competes Against JavaScript

Google DART Programming Language for Web

Google DART emerges as JavaScript competitor

Google DART, launched today, previewing the alternative to Javascript for web application programmers. JavaScript may be older but Google DART has the backing of the largest search engine on the web. Back in 2010 Google tried their hand at a programming language People design for Google, with Google in mind, and above all trying to conform to Google’s rules. Work smarter not harder, Google DART follows in that philosophy, disregarding the skill required to learn JavaScript.

Lars Bak spokesman for Google DART

If launched Google DART would square off with major programming languages such as Oracle Corporation’s JavaScript. Lars Bak, programmer and project leader for the Google DART said that designing new programming languages would make the Web better over time, according to CNET. He also blogged about the DART saying that it would be ideal for writing large web applications, which JavaScript is known to freeze on occasion.

With Google DART’s ability to handle one-person projects without much structure to larger scale projects that would need formal types in the code to state programmer intent. What Bak believes will separate Google DART from other platforms is that you start coding without types and add them later once you have found the proper structure for the program.

Ok I can see why Google DART would be popular. Although I do not presume to call myself a tech geek, I do understand how people have issues regarding the readability of the JavaScript format. It can appear messy, overwhelming and intimidating when you set out on a long road trip you really don’t want to have to pull over to go to the bathroom, get gas, food and other pit stops that simply elongate the travel time. Writing code can get tedious if you do it often enough.

JavaScript is known as the “lingua franca” aka common language for the developers of the web, however it is a thorn in Google’s side that must be removed. Google research scientist, Mark S. Miller, told PCWorld that “The cyclone of innovation is increasingly moving off the Web onto iOS and other closed platforms. JavaScript has been a part of the Web platform sicne infancy, but the Web has begun to outgrow it.”

As development of Web applications continue to sky rocket, the issues of JavaScript will become more apparent and Google DART will be the answer. However JavaScript has been around since its Netscape launch in 1995 and has weathered the storm since the beginning if you ask me. Whose to say that Oracle will not revamp JavaScript to fit the changing times? Well as we know Google obviously knows what works when it comes to the Web. Providing the option of execution via either a native virtual machine or compiled as JavaScript, the Google DART covers every browser.