[RamiK]

Java (Vs. Visual C++) had the industry and Academia trying to break free from Microsoft's grip by going cross-platform and later in-browser.

Dart just doesn't have that kind of driving force going for it.

[fidotron]

True, I had missed that.

Maybe it's that environments mean much more than languages, and with Java the JVM was the killer thing which dragged the language with it. Spark might be that killer platform for Dart, but it strikes me as wishful thinking, especially with players like github coming into that side of the market.