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Vince Ramces Oliveros

Why should I use Dart, a language that no one (at least I know) knows, and a language which is not competitive on the backend.

Javascript was popular because it is the only language that is being used in the web browsers. Dart on the other hand, did not compete because it only supports on the chrome browser and nothing else. Therefore they removed the Dart VM and made dart2js library to transpile dart code to minified js.

I like PWAs to be as SPA(No native apis being triggered) for both Android and iOS. Heavy and complex apps that triggers native api features should be in native likewise.

When I heard someone says "Why Dart?", "Dart is dead, why should I use it?"
it feels like they didn't bother to learn and benchmark the capabilities of the language itself.

Dart can be in PWA too, using AngularDart

Dart has great ecosystem with rather less active community. It keeps growing internally at Google.