I was at this. I was really looking forward since listening to the Javascript Jabber podcast (http://javascriptjabber.com/008-1-v8-and-v8-and-dart-with-lars-bak

I was at this. I was really looking forward since listening to the Javascript Jabber podcast (http://javascriptjabber.com/008-1-v8-and-v8-and-dart-with-lars-bak-and-kasper-lund-bonus-content/ http://javascriptjabber.com/008-1-v8-and-v8-and-dart-with-la...) about it. Less than 1/3 through I decided to started to zone out. I don't understand why you need a VM to compile something into Javascript. Also the optional typed language feature is just odd (okay I can see working in groups and wanting to empirically let other developers what type a variable is), but it's just not something I see myself wanting to learn to do what I already know. I was also interested in the Angular talk, which was good, but it left me thinking Angular is to CakePHP in the MV* javascript world with all the built-in automagic. Overall some pretty good talks at this.