Dart 1.0 was a fully-fledged Java-like type-unsafe OOP thing, released at just the time when such things were becoming unfashionable (for good reasons). There

Dart 1.0 was a fully-fledged Java-like type-unsafe OOP thing, released at just the time when such things were becoming unfashionable (for good reasons). There was clearly a time where Google could have, and should have, killed it, but instead they decided to keep it alive and make it a core part of Flutter (Lord knows what internal politics lead to this decision). It appears that since then, just like Golang, Google has decided to plough incredible resources into turning a bad language into an OKish one. Meanwhile the world moves on. The flutter site contains a very unconvincing explanation of why it uses Dart [1]. Unconvincing in the sense that the reasons given do not add up to a reason why a very niche language should be kept alive when many other languages would do just fine (Kotlin seems like the most obvious choice). [1] https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/faq#why-did-flutter-choose-to-use-dart https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/faq#why-did-flutter-choos...