In your version of history Dart was always a great language... but Google was simultaneously too powerful for other vendors to allow Dart to proliferate, but also too weak to sustain it themselves despite Chrome going on to do just that for many many web standards.

I'm sure that's a really cozy idea, but doesn't pass the "common sense" test: a bit like your random misuse of the term FUD.

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The simple reality is it wasn't very good, so no one was rushing to use it, and that limited how hard Google could push it. ES6 made Javascript good enough for the time being.

Dart 1.x had a weak type system, and Dart 2 was adding basics Kotlin already had almost 2 years earlier: that was also around the time I first crossed paths with Flutter, and honestly Flutter by itself was also pretty god awful since it was slowly reinventing native UI/UX from a canvas.

(It was a lot like Ionic: something you used when you had a captive user-base that literally couldn't pick a better product. Great for Google!)

> In your version of history Dart was always a great language... but Google was simultaneously too powerful for other vendors to allow Dart to proliferate, but also too weak to sustain it themselves despite Chrome going on to do just that for many many web standards.

"In my version of history"

It takes two seconds to find this if you weren't there when it happened. Google had a fork of Chromium with Dart VM called Dartium, it wasn't a matter of resources. Industry flipped Google off, plain and simple.

Educate yourself before making such claims, the decision to not adopt Dart wasn't because of its technical merits as a language.

The rest of your comment is just your opinion, so you do you. I'm not a Dart or Flutter devrel team to sell you their product.