[sethladd]

Dart is great for scripting and server-side today.

Check out https://api.dartlang.org for our core libraries... lots of good stuff in there (collections, async, networking, files, sockets, etc).

And if you don't find what you're looking for, check out https://pub.dartlang.org for third-party packages. Everything from crypto to game loops to graphics to frameworks to database drivers, etc.

As for scripting, you can definitely use Dart for console scripts. You can write really simple scripts with just functions. You can read stdio and stdout. (you can even do it synchronously, which is much easier for console scripts :)