Today Google introduced Dart at the Goto; conference. The tooling is primitive as might be expected, but under Linux runs. There are some path errors in the example source, it looks like the directory structure was setup for client & server runtimes, but only the client code was released. The language itself looks very promising as might be expected from Gilad Bracha. It looks very pragmatic, evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Reading posts on the Newspeak language forums, I expect someday to see a Newspeak to Dart compiler, as previously a Newspeak to Javascript compiler was proposed. Newspeak was likely too revolutionary for Google and an unnecessary gamble, given the option to cross-compile later.
