Google's Dart

Google's Dart looks pretty cool.
http://www.dartlang.org/docs/getting-started/

It borrows (and improves) the only thing I like from PHP - shorthand for variables and expressions in strings:
'Hello $name' replaces $name with the value of the name variable.
'Answer: ${a + b}' performs the expression a + b and swaps that result in.

It also allows both var and typed variables in the same app like Javascript and C#, and borrows one of C#'s best features, Lambda Functions:

num circumference(num r) => r * 3.14;

Finally, it doesn't have a heavy focus on making things private - nothing is private by default (you instead make something private by prefixing its name with an underscore). This is a somewhat odd syntax, but I think one of Javascript's enduring and under-recognized strengths is that everything is by default public. This makes Monkey-Patching broken-but-useful libraries possible, something that's impossible in Java and has caused enormous amounts of pain in numerous past Java projects I've worked on.

Looking forward to seeing where Dart goes next. My suggestion: Port the Closure library to Dart.
http://code.google.com/closure/library/