Google’s new open-source programming language aims to provide developers with a strong alternative to JavaScript that is believed to be too flawed to deal with harsh competition from proprietary rivals such as Apple’s iOS.

In November last year, Google’s research scientist Mark Miller had said, “The cyclone of innovation is increasingly moving off the web onto iOS and other closed platforms.”

According to Dart software engineer Lars Bak, Google’s new open-source programming language has three main objectives. Its foremost objective is to offer an ordered as well as a flexible language for web developers.

Google wants to make it easier and simpler for web developers to learn the new language by making Dart familiar and natural to them.

The internet search giant also wants Dart to deliver high performance on all modern web browsers and platforms, ranging right from small handheld devices to massive servers.

The new open-source programming language has its own native virtual machine, along with a compiler which is capable of translating Dart to JavaScript. Thus, apps written in Dart can run on modern browser.