[saurik]

That same team--led by the same guy: Lars Bak--was later hired by Google to develop v8 for Chrome and later built the VM for Dart (which has some really powerful features in static object layout and AOT support). Virtually every single seminal VM for decades was designed by this same group of people, with almost all other VMs you see just borrowing those same techniques to apply to other languages.

[pjmlp]

And then Lars Bak left, I guess desilusioned with out things turned out for Dart, and is now doing "Dart for IoT" back in Denmark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPna6D21Eqg

[russellallen]

It’s an era only just ending now with the emergence of Truffle/Graal.