Dart's VM was designed by the team (I think not just the one guy, but maybe I'm wrong on that and it really is just Lars Bak) that designed most of the truly no

Dart's VM was designed by the team (I think not just the one guy, but maybe I'm wrong on that and it really is just Lars Bak) that designed most of the truly notable VMs that have ever existed: Self, Smalltalk Strongtalk, Java Hotspot, and JavaScript V8. It also features an ahead-of-time compiler mode in addition to a world-class JIT and interpreter, allowing for hot reload during development. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programme... It was stuck with a bad rep for being the language that was never going to replace JavaScript in the browser, and then was merely a transpiler no one was going to use, before it found a new life as the language for Flutter, which has driven a lot of its syntax and semantics improvements since, with built-in VM support for extremely efficient object templating (used by the reactive UI framework).