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It's definitely saner to use something that has a community and traction. You definitely can't argue that Dart is a saner choice of language than JavaScript. After all if they'd chosen JavaScript, Dart could be useable via compilation. So would a whole bunch of other more commonly known and probably saner languages.

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Sane by your definition is not the same as my definition then. A community can't grow if people aren't a part of it. Using Dart is one of the best decisions I have made in my life.

I gather you're already compiling it to JavaScript, though? Otherwise your audience would be very limited.

The decision to use Dart for this project seems to me like an attempt to find a lifeline for it. That's fair enough, but it could ultimately be a highly limiting factor and the reason it doesn't go anywhere. That would be a shame as cross-platform frameworks need to keep evolving to be more useable and performant.

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