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A few things stood out to me and I think it really came out of the fact that Dart was as I originally understood it designed to be a replacement for both Java and JavaScript which probably feels instantly obvious to anyone who has spent much time with it in terms of style and patterns. To me it’s like all the good parts of each and none or few of the bad.

Basically Google hired a bunch of PhD types to design something from the ground up that would run anywhere, compile to native, compile to JavaScript and soon to WASM. It’s fully object oriented but also has first class support for functions and everything that enables.

It has fully sound null safety, the tooling they have around it is also amazing for example code can rewrite itself to update to latest APIs and patterns just by running ‘dart fix’. But it’s a very boring and predictable language that’s easy to use and never really surprises me with quirks.