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If only Google had the courage to put Dart into Chrome...

So we would have even more web sites that only work in Chrome?

Your username is "msie." Do you remember what Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 did to the web?

Yes I do but there's no innovation without someone taking that first step. It was from IE that we got XmlHttpRequest.

Dart 1 was not very good though, so we'd have been stuck with that.

What's to stop them from updating the language? I mean we are not stuck with JS version 1 either.

We can only make backwards compatible changes to Javascript; Google has made several backwards incompatible changes to Dart.

IIRC the language design took a significantly different direction after the original leadership got fed up and left.

So if someone likes the current version of Dart then rejection by the browser might be inherent in how it came to be.