[throwaway032023]

I think Dart is underappreciated. Almost the entire compiler is written in Dart. It has a VM, AOT compiler, FFI/Native, and first class Javascript interop with ability to compile to javascript. It has first class WASM support. Null sound safety. They have experimental support for macros. Pretty impressive.

[cageface]

I completely agree. I was lukewarm on Dart but decided to do my new app in Flutter and it's turned out to be a great experience. Kotlin and Swift may look better on paper but Dart is very productive. The tooling is really solid and the fast compile times and hot reload really help for rapid iteration. I've also had no performance issues.