[themerone]

It gets the hate because it comes from Google and it was originally marketed as a JavaScript replacement.

Additionally, the first unoptimized compiler resulted in "hello world" having a gargantuan amount of JavaScript code. That left the language with a hard to shake stigma.

[satvikpendem]

To be fair, around a decade ago, Chrome wanted to add a Dart VM (Dartium) to which many vehemently protested, and I agree it would have been a bad move to have a browser essentially have its own language rather than JS, forcing other browsers to adopt it. From there though, we got a much better cross browser standards-based solution in the form of WASM, which is even more powerful since languages other than Dart could be used. This controversy is where I first saw the Dart hate, but it has grown into a nice language since, especially with Dart 3+ which introduces, records, patterns, and exhaustive pattern matching.

[strongpigeon]

Oh yeah I do remember that. I can see how some of that stigma lingers.