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The VM development will continue for use on servers, embedded, and mobile, they just have no plans to integrate it into Chromium.

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The Dart blog post was unclear about the future of the Dart VM. I don't see why Google will continue to maintain the VM. Does Google use the Dart VM on servers or mobile? Dart would be nice a nice replacement for Java on Android.

Dart VM is an essential part of the Dart ecosystem.

Dart tools: pub's (package manager) client, analyzer, dart2js compiler, etc are all written in Dart.

We have a good story for server side developement and we are not looking to abandon it but rather we are looking to expand it, e.g. we just released a package to facilitate creation of REST APIs[1]. Pub's server side is being rewritten into Dart as we speak[2]

Among cool internal users of Dart VM I could mention Google Fiber - they'll share their experience during the upcoming Dart Summit[3].

[1] http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/create-your-own-rest-api-wi...

[2] https://github.com/dart-lang/pub-dartlang-dart

[3] https://www.dartlang.org/events/2015/summit/sessions/google-...

Thanks for the links. Dart had an uphill battle on the web, but doesn't need to worry about those problems or legacy on the server side.

Now that the Dart VM story is less controversial I hope more people will take a fresh look at the VM (in non-browser settings) and appreciate its merits.

https://apis.google.com/u/0/wm/1/+dartlang/posts/5mvWSHGVRxo

You may want to follow the upcoming developer summit, it will have nice treats of the plans regarding the ecosystem: https://www.dartlang.org/events/2015/summit/

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