New competitor to D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 21 July 2022 at 12:16:31 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> My understanding is that it was designed as a language for 
> webapps. Simply replacing JavaScript isn't much of a goal.

The Dart VM JIT was supposed to go into the Chrome executable as 
a more performant VM JIT than the one for JavaScript, but it was 
dropped. The people who designed Dart also worked on StrongTalk, 
a faster SmallTalk variant, and that [VM design was later turned 
into HotSpot for 
Java](https://comp.lang.smalltalk.narkive.com/GIFQd2Ri/strongtalk-vm-is-now-open-source).
So the Dart designers had knowledge of how language design 
affects VM/JIT performance.

(Dart also compiles to JavaScript as a cross-platform feature, 
but that was not the original primary use case.)