Google announces Dart programming language

A few days after Google was caught registering a bunch of Dart-related domain names, and the inevitable storm of speculation, it has now emerged that Dart is a new programming language for “structured web programming.”

On October 10, during the keynote speech of the Goto conference in Aarhus, Denmark, two Google developers will unveil the new language. We can only infer Dart’s characteristics and feature set until then, but fortunately the Goto conference website gives us some very detailed biographies about the Googlers who are delivering the keynote, and who are presumably the language’s…