[cyberprunes]

I used dart for a couple projects just around it's 1.0 release. I really liked it back then. They were working on some neat ideas. I remember futures and streams being really really interesting in 2013 or so. Originally Dart was competing directly with Typescript. It wasn't clear who would win at the time. Typescript focused on being a superset of JS and Dart made the mistake of trying to push its own VM into the browser which never really got traction and so transpiling to JS and depending on gwt was the only answer for dart on the web (I think) and the js output was pretty hairy. Dart web was dead. Go was already getting popular on the backend and so Dart had nowhere left to go until Flutter. Dart's fate is now Flutter's fate.