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IMO the problem is that Dart is pretty much JS and really not challenging the status quo - My light experience with Dart is JS < Dart < TS. So if there's an opportunity to simply use TS, I don't see the benefits of Dart.

AOT and JIT compilation and the fast hot reload and performance in general of dart/flutter seem to absolutely trump JS/react native.

> I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing?

There were so many benefits to the PC compatible/DOS monoculture in computing. Competition drove down prices, the need to be compatible meant that many new advancements were done in a standardized way, and everybody got a flourishing software ecosystem to use. Monocultures come with _tradeoffs_, but you could argue that without a few of them coming along at the right time, computers would be way behind where they are now.

> there's no reason to be against attempts to challenge the status quo.

Now try justifying that ideology to upper-management :)