I'm personally of the opinion that many languages is a good thing. I don't like monocultures much, so on that level, I want dart to succeed. I agree that havin

I'm personally of the opinion that many languages is a good thing. I don't like monocultures much, so on that level, I want dart to succeed. I agree that having a robust dart-first framework (and widget library) is a necessary condition for making dart popular. Here's hoping it is also sufficient. I feel like Dart lost its biggest edge when google moved away from the dart runtime. If everything is just compiled down to js anyway, dart can't do much more than put syntactic sugar over what's already there, instead of providing a real new language experience. Then again, clojure, scala, and java are really different experiences. Maybe google's backing keeps the language running long enough to gain real traction.