Dart: Up and Running

When we joined Google and entered the fascinating world of web browser development more than six years ago, the web was a different place. It was clear that a new breed of web apps was emerging, but the performance of the underlying platform left much to be desired. Given our background in designing and implementing virtual machines, building a high performance JavaScript engine seemed like an interesting challenge. It was. We implemented the V8 JavaScript engine from scratch and shipped it as part of Google Chrome in 2008, and we are very proud of the positive performance impact our work seems to have had on the entire...