From this link on the dartlang site: http://www.dartlang.org/docs/dart-up-and-running/ch01.html#ch01-why-dart http://www.dartlang.org/docs/dart-up-and-running/c

From this link on the dartlang site: http://www.dartlang.org/docs/dart-up-and-running/ch01.html#ch01-why-dart http://www.dartlang.org/docs/dart-up-and-running/ch01.html#c... "As VM engineers, the designers of Dart know how to build a language for performance. A more structured language is easier to optimize, and a fresh VM enables improvements such as faster startup."