So I've been looking at the Dart language specification recently published by Google (draft version 0.01). So far, I'm not really enthusiastic. Here's my reading notes.

Class-based OO and Interfaces

At first glance Dart code looks like Java (and nothing's wrong with that, I'm not going to criticize a language based on my idiomatic preferences). The syntax is very similar, with the dot to invoke methods, the curly braces for blocks, the required semicolon to terminate statements, the main() function, the general feeling of verbosity. The familiar classes and interfaces are…