There was a complete fork to support it, Dartium.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/dart/dartium/src/

Dart is only around because it was rescued by AdWords team, which had just migrated from GWT into AngularDart, and wasn't happy to do yet another transition.

Most of the key names from Smalltalk/Self background that were part of Dart 1.0 left the team at this point.

It managed to stay around long enough to get the attention of the Flutter team, originally their prototype was done in JavaScript, which is also the reason why Dart 2.0 was a complete reboot of its type system, from dynamically typed with optional typing, to strongly typed language with type inference.

And it isn't as if Flutter is a great success, Fuchsia never made it big, the Android team counter attacked with Kotlin's adoption, JetPack Compose, and Kotlin Multiplatform.

And what's crazy is with ai the percentage of apps developed using react in comparison to all other frameworks has INCREASED over the last 3 years.

It is truly mass hysteria, I would say that 95% of developers, project managers, and CTOs do not truly understand how these systems work under the hood, or at the very least are too scared and comfortable to try other systems. They just repeat the same things they hear and tell each other "react has a big ecosystem" "react is industry standard" "everyone uses react" "react was developed by facebook" "we will use react" "Developers only know react, how could we hire for a different framework?"

In my mind its clear that the alternatives are massively better. When i visit certain websites I often get a random tingle that it uses svelte because its way faster and has better loading and navigation than other sites and when i check the devtools I'm almost always correct.

I also get the same feeling sometimes when I hit a laggy slow webapp and I open the devtools and clearly see its a nextjs app.

A dev team could be trained on svelte or vue in literally 3 days, and so long as they actually understand how HTML, JS, and css work under the hood they would increase their speed massively. People just don't want to take the risk.

I managed to avoid learning React long enough to become a manager.

I'm not saying I won't ever end up in engineering and won't ever have to learn it, but at least right now, it feels kinda like I got away with something.

Unfortunely it is hard to avoid when doing backed development with SaaS, iPaaS products, where JavaScript is in many cases the only extension language for backend widgets.

I am kind of alright with Next.js, as it is quite similar to using SSR with more tradicionla backend stacks.

Also at least node's C++ AddOns give me an excuse to occasionally throw C++ into the mix.

I analyzed all the major frameworks years ago and went with Svelte when svelte 5 came out. It is all I use now, the development team is highly responsive and cooperative with the community, the founder Rich Harris has a pragmatic approach and tries to keep it as compatible with html/js while still providing great DX and massive efficiency. It natively supports serverside rendering that turns into a SPA once it hits the browser.

Angular is probably more efficient than react but The DX is going to be worse than svelte or vue.

If you want the fastest apps in environments with low ping then use Qwik.

If you want the best overall experience, great customizability, compatability with any js package, great efficiency in most situations, and a great developer experience just go with Svelte (or vue maybe).

Angular might be fine, I don't know. I never used it extensively. But I do know that svelte is the only framework that I like using now.

Angular uses directives for rendering, that allows compilers to optimize rendering.

React model uses plain JavaScript expressions which are harder to optimize.

Do some research, experiment. Make up your own mind.