As its company goal, Google has established itself as the leader in innovation. Actually, they are more like an unstoppable, rolling juggernaut of innovation, which shows absolutely no signs of stopping. To go hand in hand with many of its other innovative offerings, Google has announced that this October they will roll out a brand new programming language. Google has designated this new language, labeled “Dart”, with as a “structured web” programming tool.
As with nearly every other announcement of new releases that Google makes, the web savvy masses tend to perk up their ears and listen. Google’s reputation is solid and precedes itself, and they have proven their reliability to deliver strong results in most situations. Of course, Google had a fair share of projects that faded into obscurity not long after their arrival; then again, realistically no company bats a thousand.
Google has kept the nature of Dart, as well as many of the details about it under wraps, leaving the public waiting until sometime in early to mid October to see the results for themselves when Google officially unveils Dart. There are other structured web languages out there, several very popular ones in fact. Google has previously released “Go”, a language that Google had announced formally in spring of 2010 and has claimed is still used for workings in their active software today. Logically, Dart would be a progression of what Go started, but Google is making it sound like Dar will be a fresh approach to structured web based programming; a rethought, reevaluated tool which will take a brand new path to how programming is handled.
It is hard to gauge the reception that Dart will receive, though as with any beta and early versions, active users are sure to stumble upon a wide assortment of bugs, design omissions and develop many ideas for tools and enhancements to the new code. And this is an area where perhaps Google’s openness of communication will play a key role. Google can open a full forum available to any Dart users and collect potentially hundreds of thousands of suggestions from users, and apply that to future service releases of the software. And of course, its got the Google name to it, which accounts for a lot more than some might give it credit for.
Dart’s practicality and use will be the other major factor whose role will be undeniably linked to the language’s success. If Dart proves to be a viable web programming tool, Google would have single handedly changed the face not only of its own company’s code development branch, but the nature of programming in general. While most programming languages apply diverse syntax of code, most hold true to the same standards of the nature of programming. Its hard to believe that any company would be able to develop a drastic shift in the general scope of programming nature, but if there is anyone we should not count out to turn the world on its face, its Google.