An attractive feature of Web programming is a
rapid development cycle. Reloading the application after the source code has changed takes a
fraction of a second. We want to offer you that same experience when using Dart, and today we’re making Mac and Linux
binaries available that integrate the Dart VM
into Chromium.
This technology preview allows you to run
your Dart programs directly on the Dart VM in Chromium and avoid a separate compilation step.
Over time, these programs will take advantage of the VM’s faster performance and lower startup
latency.
Dart has been designed from the start to work with the entire
modern web, and we’re simultaneously continuing to improve our fast Dart-to-JavaScript
compiler. Both the Dart VM and modern JavaScript engines are first-class targets for
Dart.
This release of Chromium with Dart VM integration is a technology
preview, and should not be used for day-to-day browsing. After more testing and developer
feedback, we plan to eventually include the Dart VM in Chrome.
Today’s
release of the Chromium + Dart VM
integration is another step forward for the open source "batteries included" Dart platform.
Our goal is to help you build complex, high performance apps for the modern web, and we
encourage you to try Dart and
let us know
what you think.
Anton Muhin is an engineer at
Google Saint Petersburg who recently worked on making V8 VM and DOM bindings faster and now is
working on integrating the Dart VM into Chromium. Before that he worked on the Google Calendar
backend.
Vijay Menon is a software engineer at Google Seattle working
on integrating the Dart language and runtime into the browser. His background is in compilers,
runtime systems, and parallel programming.
Pavel Podivilov is a
software engineer at Google Saint Petersburg who worked on Chrome Developer Tools prior to
joining the Dartium team.
