Heinrich Apfelmus
I didn't look very carefully, but from a Haskeller's point of view, I can't see any significant difference between Dart and JavaScript, except perhaps for the name. By comparison, CoffeeScript is a way more innovative venture.
If you want a useful client-side browser language, which is not just the same as JavaScript with a different syntax, look into Haxe [1]. That one is a statically, strongly typed language, which can be compiled down to JavaScript and other targets (PHP, ActionScript, SWF, C++, etc.). Some of the interesting features of it are algebraic data types, pattern matching, a module system and a rich standard library with lots of functionality which you always missed in JavaScript. It is also a great alternative, if you are forced to deploy PHP code and, like me, can't even find words strong enough to express the intensity of your absolute hate against that "programming language". [1] http://haxe.org/ Greets, Ertugrul -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://ertes.de/