Does google dart produce ES5 friendly javascript and does that include or exclude IE8 today?

dart, internet-explorer-8, javascript

Solution

Dart only targets ES5-capable browsers, that is Internet Explorer >= 9, Firefox >= 4, Opera >= 12 and reasonably new WebKit-based browsers. IE 8 is off the table.

Also, I think that currently, it's more likely to experience issues in browsers other than newest Chromium/Chrome, but I don't have a direct experience with this.

Problem

I'm doing some research to see if the current implementation of google dart is IE8 friendly. Our team has to support IE8 for some time and I'm trying to find out if the javascript produced from dart today works for this legacy browser. Does the dart transcompiler lint the output javascript like coffeescript does? And finally does dart produce ES5 friendly javascript?

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