The tech wizards at Google are on the verge of introducing a second programming language. Unlike the company's Go, a systems-level language, Dart will apparently be tailored to the needs of Web programming.

The news doesn't come to us from Google, at least not directly. We learned about the language by browsing the schedule for the GOTO conference to be held in Aarhus, Denmark October 10-14, 2011. Two language designers from Google will be presenting the keynote address: Dart, a New Programming Language for Structured Web Programming.

Google has already registered a handful of domains to support the new language.

The software engineers who will present the language to the world have very interesting backgrounds. Gilad Bracha is the designer of Newspeak, an object-oriented language in the tradition of Smalltalk and Self. Bracha comes to Google by way of SAP Labs, Cadence, and Sun Microsystems. Lars Bak is responsible for V8, the highly optimized Java virtual machine used in Google Chrome.

Does the world need another programming language? Well...maybe. Google is uniquely positioned to understand the browser-side demands of cloud-computing architectures. Bracha and Bak have years of solid successes behind them. I think we'd better keep our eyes on Dart.

Look for more information here as it becomes available.

Web recommendation: Sebastian Anthony has written an insightful little story on Windows 8's support of Hyper-V virtualization for the good folks at ExtremeTech. The article, Windows 8 Will Feature Hyper-V Guest OS Machine Virtualization, doesn't seem to be geared primarily for developers. But it does highlight a reason or two that this feature might be very interesting to those of us who cut code for a living. It got me to thinking. J.D. says check it out.

J.D. Hildebrand has written hundreds of articles for dozens of publications and online communities dedicated to software development. He recently relocated to a small town outside Belgrade – stop by if your travels take you through Serbia.