Promoting its alternative language to JavaScript,
Google is working to bridge JavaScript to Google Dart,
with the release Monday of an application that the
company is calling its JavaScript to Dart Synonym app.
Web developers are familiar and comfortable with
JavaScript. However, JavaScript developers interested
in using DART didn?t know how to map common
JavaScript idioms to Dart. Hence the idea for this
synonym app was born.
Google started with the basics that every JavaScript
and jQuery developer knows: variables, arrays,
functions, classes, DOM manipulation, and many more.
Then, with the help of the Dart team, Google recorded
the corresponding Dart versions of each idiom.
"We hope our app that maps between JavaScript and Dart
eases your introduction to Dart and gives you a sense
of where the project is going," said Aaron Wheeler,
Google senior user experience prototype, and Marcin
Wichary, Google senior user experience designer, in
the official Google Code Blog.
Google Dart
was unveiled last
October as a language for "structured Web
programming." The company has argued that Dart would
address so-called scalablity limitations of
JavaScript.
"We know the team is eager to hear your feedback.
Don't hesitate to join the conversation or file a new
issue for either Dart or the Synonym app. And
remember, Dart isn't set in stone, so your feedback
counts," Wheeler and Wichary said.