I don't remember the specifics, but Dart didn't really have a good story when it was invented. It was this Google (red flag 1) language that was targeting JS (r

I don't remember the specifics, but Dart didn't really have a good story when it was invented. It was this Google (red flag 1) language that was targeting JS (red flag 2 at the time) and while some few people I had talked to liked it, 8-9/10 people simply didn't see enough benefit to switch. This might have been around the coffeescript days still, so the people who valued small unimportant QoL improvement (yeah, sue me) were already accounted for for the most part. That's when it already had been not popular and most of us thought it would just vanish, but then at some point Flutter came along. But I can't talk about that time, because I have no clue.