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The sad thing is, around 2010, most of the JS world (at least JSconf people, which tend to be pretty influential) were interested in Dash as a JS replacement. We were aware of various inconsistencies around typing, Arrays being fancy Objects, the language allowing developers to do weird things rather than warning, type coersion in == etc. There was an appetite for better languages, CoffeeScript was big.

Then they released a 1.0 with zero consultation about what JS developers wanted. Just inflicted by Google as "here's what you'll have". Everyone ignored Dash (and still ignores Dart).