Im making the argument that JavaScript is a target that we have all been collectively forced into due to the limitations of the web as a platform but short to medium term horizon that is changing where things like WASM are maturing and will let a lot of new options flourish (.NET folks seem to be probably leading this charge currently)

But just stopping to think about the implications of that kind of changing landscape and what’s coming, I don’t think aiming for 100% JS interop not just from a code perspective but it also the entire tooling and developer ecosystem perspective is going to be as important.

Again, I just think people are somewhat forced to at the moment because the web has always been a one language show. That wasn’t because JS was the best choice but rather a limitation of the platform itself which is already in the early stages of changing.

For Dart specifically I kind of get what you’re talking about I guess because it’s pretty commonly referred to as the best bits of JS and Java put together while ditching the worst parts of each so it’s clearly aimed at productivity for application sized code bases rather than something low level but again… that’s literally why they have a proper complication step because getting it down to something a lot more low level is exactly what a compiler is for. That doesn’t feel weird to me at all, that actually feels like an incredibly sensible choice.