I’m with you. Dart felt like a step back in time for me. I was a big fan of some of the early Dart leaders (Lars Bak and Gilda Bracha). I remember when I asked

I’m with you. Dart felt like a step back in time for me. I was a big fan of some of the early Dart leaders (Lars Bak and Gilda Bracha). I remember when I asked why Dart seemed like a watered down variant of some Lars and Gilads earlier work; I was tiled by a former colleague that had joined the project that “Lars was playing it safer, playing to win” these days. I don’t know how much either of these people are associated with Dart anymore. Somewhere in Dart’s search of a killer problem to be the solution for, we got fully typed Dart (as opposed to the original annotations are optional mindset). I did one of the free web courses for it, built like 10 teeny pointless apps. Three things stood out: - the experience was kind of painful on iOS, the look had an “uncanny” effect - the tutor tried to explain classes as a “way of organizing code” which undersells what classes are really about (binding behavior to data) - the language felt like an alter Java (type declarations in the left side still??)