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Actually I would have been very glad if other vendors adopted the Dart VM, and we got a new fucking web language to eventually replace (or supplement) JS, instead of the pile of hacks we got.

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Dart had a lot of problems, most notably that GC between JS and Dart was never handled well, because the Dart VM and V8 used separate garbage collectors.

Besides, I'd much rather have the effort go into one new VM (or VM "mode"), so we can solve the problem once and for all. That is, let's have Web Assembly.

We got WASM instead, which I'd argue is much better than support for a specific language, which would lock you in and prevent you from taking advantage of new programming language research.

At the moment (and for the next 5 years I think) WASM is just a way to write code you'd write in C/C++.

Not some support for other languages on a first class basis on the webpage just like Javascript (which direct access to the DOM and everything).

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