Then why is Dart much less successful?
Dart was meant to be a better JavaScript, but the barrier to entry for a new browser-native language is impossibly high: it needs consensus of all browser vendors plus a decade for all users to upgrade. Dart made a fatal mistake of betting on having a brand new browser VM instead of being a good compile-to-JS language. In the meantime, JS itself has improved (ES5, ES6), and TS has been designed for being a first-class JS compilation target. The "better JS" niche has been filled by JS.