[jrockway]

Java-- is an interesting comparison. I used Dart when I was at Google like a decade ago and my impression as I was learning the language was that it was like a scripting language variant of Java. I'd have called it "JavaScript" ;)

I haven't really looked at it since then but it felt like a lighter and easier Java at the time, which I was fine with. (I did a lot of Java in those days.)