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One of the design goals: "Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution."

Server-side execution? I thought Go was their systems programming language? It sure sounds like they're competing rather than complementing each other.

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There's a lot of server side programming for which Go probably wouldn't be the ideal language. Room for more than 2 languages in the world I think :)

Like what? Go is an absolutely excellent language for server-side programming. I've yet to find anything it wasn't suited for.

There's room, I just don't get why Google would promote two of its own very similar languages for the same purpose at the same time.

What do you mean by "server side programming"? That's a pretty wide net to cast. Do you really think that Go is the ideal language for every bit of code that doesn't happen to run on a client of some sort?

Server side != systems programming.

Think server side web programming.

Is PHP/Ruby et al a "systems programming language"?

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