It’s not a real birthday party without a present, so Google has just pulled the wraps off the first stable version of the Dart structured programming language, one year after it was launched. Along with “thousands” of bug fixes, the rejuvenated version will have a faster virtual machine, new JavaScript translator, HTML, server-side I/O and interoperable JavaScript libraries, the Pub package manager and Dartium, a Chromium build with native Dart support. Mountain view promised to keep the improvements coming “while maintaining backward compatibility” for the language, so if you feel frisky enough to jump JavaScript’s ship, check the source below (or video after the break) to see how to grab it.
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