Dart is a new programming language developed by Google to help build structured modern web apps. It aims to replace JavaScript as the main language of the web. Dart is class-based, object-oriented, and optionally typed. It has advantages over JavaScript like better support for concurrency and modularity. The presentation demonstrates key differences in syntax between JavaScript and Dart for concepts like functions, classes, inheritance, exceptions, and AJAX calls. It also shows demos of Dart apps and references the DartCon tool for converting between Dart and JavaScript.