Great interview. (Happen to agree with BE entirely. ;-)<p>I like the image at the end of a bunch of little bangs instead of one big (failing) bang. Maybe even if they're synchronized nicely you can get the same effect as an internal combustion engine with many little bangs driving a crankshaft.
It wasn't that long ago the Brendan Eich was still hostile to Dart [<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266599" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266599</a>] but now he seems to have softened.<p><i>"Ideally we’ll get things in JavaScript like big integers/bignums that Dart has that JavaScript doesn’t yet"</i><p>Historically, Mr. Eich has been critical of Dart, and if you follow that thread above he has nothing good to say about Dart, so this is a change, probably brought on by the everyone concluding that the Dart VM has no future in browsers and therefore is not a threat to Javascript.<p>Dart (dartlang) has a lot of nice features, is easy to work with and can increase productivity greatly in some cases. Dart still has a future if they improve the Javascript output as this project is attempting:[<a href="https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler</a>]<p>I'm glad Mr. Eich has opened his mind to some of the good things in Dart.