Well, until recently, the proposed transition was to a non-standard language controlled by one company. We'll see if the attempt to standardize Dart has a positive effect.
"To develop test suites that may be used to verify the correct implementation of these standards."
This way other implementations have an accessible way of testing compliance. I'm not sure if we'll see another JIT'ing VM soon, but I personally hope there's a JVM implementation one day.
There are no attempts to standardise Dart, it's just the rubber-stamping of Dart by ECMA. Think C#.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2006/03/29/the-r...
where the compile-time literal (8 * (0+(7-7))) implicitly converts to an enumeration type, but (8 * ((7-7)+0)) does not.
True but completely irrelevant to vor_'s comment. For all intents and purposes, Dart is still a non-standard language controlled by one company, exactly as C#.