Don't forget that Dart is not just a language, it's also a tool ecosystem, with a virtual machine that is already faster than V8 in some key benchmarks. This s

Don't forget that Dart is not just a language, it's also a tool ecosystem, with a virtual machine that is already faster than V8 in some key benchmarks. This session from I/O by Kasper Lund and Lars Bak is well worth a watch: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/324431687 https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/324431687 In it they explain that they've pretty much reached the peak of where they can get to in terms of performance with V8 (no more big jumps in performance), but by designing a language that is easier to optimize for, they've already made the Dart VM faster.