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I am a newbie in field of Web Development, and recently I felt in love with JavaScript, especially because of the sheer capability to write Client side and Server side code in same language. Thanks to Meteor.js, it made my bond with JavaScript even more stronger.

But now with the buzz of Google Dart going around, I am afraid that, am I betting on the wrong horse? Is it the right to jump on Google Dart bandwagon? To be honest, it do looks promising.

Please guide me, what should I do, since I am a newbie, I want to take advantage of the fact that, since I don't know anything, I better learn something that have much promising future, and have an edge over technology.

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Honestly, JavaScript has orders of magnitude more usage and a lot more momentum than Dart does. I don't think you'll be harming your career prospects in becoming proficient in JS.

I also think there are better choices than Dart if you want to learn something that will expand your mind. Dart strikes me as a very practical language.

Learn Javascript. Dart is a dead end technology.

ALL the committers are from Google and it is not an open standard which basically eliminates any chance that Mozilla/Apple will ever consider adopting it. And frankly with Apple dominating the mobile web without them any solution will never eventuate to anything.

> [Dart] is not an open standard

It will get standardized in the not too distant future. [1]

> Apple dominating the mobile web

Huh? Android's market share is over 80%. iOS got about 13%. [2]

[1] http://www.ecma-international.org/news/Dart%20workshop.htm

[2] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/11/12/idc-android-hit-81-...

Android's market share maybe 80% but it is about 50/50 in terms of web usage.

And don't forget that Apple customers are acknowledged as the more valuable (higher net worth, disposable income, tastemakers etc)

Wait until developing word get their smart phones.

> It will get standardized in the not too distant future. [1]

Standardized by Google, perhaps, but by nobody else. It will not be a multi-vendor standard.

How many years did it take JavaScript to become a multi-vendor standard?

Let's see... Netscape Navigator 2.0 was shipped with it in September 1995 and ECMA-262 1st Edition was written in June 1997 and finally approved in April 1998.

However, the 1st edition was done entirely by Netscape (by the looks of it). So, this doesn't count as a multi-vendor standard since there wasn't any involvement by any other vendor.

Looks like you're being a bit unreasonable. Dart isn't even shipped yet in one browser and you're already complaining that it isn't a multi-vendor standard yet. Going by JavaScript's timeline, it still has more than 3 years for getting to that point.

I have spent time with both Dart and with JavaScript + Meteor. Both are good stacks. If you are already up to speed on Meteor, why not just use that for a year, build applications, and maybe look at alternatives later.

It is probably best to start writing web apps, and not on learning many tools.

Thanks for the advise, I am thinking of concentrating on JavaScript + Meteor for now.

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