[sparkie]

You could take one of dozens of language and mark "check" for each of those points. (And the first one is questionable anyway, there are better languages). So why Dart rather than some other language? What's it's real selling points?

Perhaps the strongest thing going for Dart is that there's a big company with resources behind it. Unfortunately, this is also the worst thing about it. Google's lack of effort to involve other browser vendors and the community at large in it's development is ultimately the reason why not many are interested, aside from whether or not the language is any good.

[ramblerman]

Involving the community during the design stage just bogs the whole thing down with discussions like "semi colons or not?"

languages need to be created as a dictatorship and then ultimately open sourced, imo