I just spent a couple of hours reading the Dart site. Dart is a web friendly optimized SmallTalk with a Javascript like syntax. It looks like Javascript but f

I just spent a couple of hours reading the Dart site. Dart is a web friendly optimized SmallTalk with a Javascript like syntax. It looks like Javascript but feels like SmallTalk. If that marketing trick works, it will be ironic because Scheme inspired Javascript looked like Java for the same marketing reason... CoffeeScript might be Javascript's swan song.