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When Dart was released, I was curious to see if they'd position it as an alternative to Java on Android.

They hired kevmoo (a pretty well-respected Seattle area engineer and game dev) as a PM, which again led me to believe they were perhaps looking at game dev on Dart on Android. I fully expected them to start shipping Android with the Dart VM, open up a new set of Android packages for taking advantage of existing/native stuff, and boom: suddenly the Android ecosystem benefits from a new set of developers coming at it from the web angle. That's what Ludei and others have been trying to promote. This goes deeper into solving perf issues, however.

Now that Chrome tabs are represented as individual windows in Android 5.0, the line between "app" and "web app" on mobile is ever more blurry.