[drb91]

> I think what killed Dart is that they emphasized their plans to make Dart a first-class scripting language of Chrome, so that you could use <script type="text/dart"> instead of JavaScript.

Funny, that's what I saw as the core attraction. The fact that they never pushed for adoption in other browsers and fell back on transpilation removed the benefit you'd get from an alternative scripting environment.

Thankfully, we now have web assembly.