Yohan Beschi presented on building single-page web applications using the Dart programming language. Dart aims to improve programmer productivity and application scalability compared to other options like JavaScript and Java with Google Web Toolkit (GWT). It provides an abstract class structure, generics, and other features to build user interfaces more concisely. Dart code compiles to JavaScript to run in browsers. The Dart ecosystem includes virtual machines, the Dartium browser, the Dart editor, and pub package manager.