> it really is not clear that even Google can force Dart down others' throats
It's peculiar that Google claims that it is utterly impotent to persuade developers to use Pointer Events, and so it is going to give up even trying, and yet it continues to develop Dart and make vague noises about integrating it into the browser.
Google's own developers use Dart for Google products, no? I think that pressure is grassroots even if it is internal. And even if Dart remains permanently a compile-to-js language, as tragic as that would be, it's still an incremental improvement over GWT.
It's peculiar that Google claims that it is utterly impotent to persuade developers to use Pointer Events, and so it is going to give up even trying, and yet it continues to develop Dart and make vague noises about integrating it into the browser.