I can think of at least 3 reasons: - it's a fun project, if you're into that sort of thing - dart has a VM, so you can run server side applications on it - m

I can think of at least 3 reasons: - it's a fun project, if you're into that sort of thing - dart has a VM, so you can run server side applications on it - more bragging points for ceylon, as it confirms their design as a VM independent language Now, it would be fun to compare the javascript code produced by ceylon directly with the one produced by the the dart compiler.