Just when we thought Google Dart was Google’s answer to JavaScript, a compiler project is emerging to enable front-end code written in Google Go to run in all browsers. The GopherJS project ...

It also means JavaScript developers will be able to use Go’s type system and tools. Joy project creator Matthew Mueller says the Go-to-JavaScript translation work is about 90 percent complete.

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.