Internet giant, Google this week released a new programming language called, Dart that will offer an alternative to JavaScript for Web programming.

Dart joins a host of new emerging programming languages claiming to have the potential to give a new direction to the web. However, analysts say that there are hundreds of programming languages but the number of widely used languages is very small and even fewer are suitable for use in universal platform like the internet.

COBOL and Fortran, the accepted standards for business and scientific programming are used limitedly by users. Object-oriented programming relies on existing language, C, which was designed as language for programming systems.

Dart, the new client-side Web programming language, has been positioned as a "JavaScript killer" by some who said it will replace flawed languages. The developer community has responded with enthusiasm even as some of the developers raised concerns that this is a Google's attack on open source platform.

Google had revealed Dart during a keynote address at the annual GoTo conference in Aarhus, Denmark. The company had released some documentation and tools for the language. It might be of great help to the client-side Web developers.