Whilst I can agree mostly with your last three points I don't think any company, even apple, could at this point replace JavaScript on the web. It's too ingrained. Sure there's typescript but that's not a whole sale replacement, the end result is still JavaScript.
Yeah but you've still got to convince everyone to rewrite all the JavaScript in it. That's a big ask even for Google with a faster VM. If they'd pushed it I would predict chrome market share taking a dive.
Personally I think they did the right thing pivoting away from trying to replace JavaScript.
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Whilst I can agree mostly with your last three points I don't think any company, even apple, could at this point replace JavaScript on the web. It's too ingrained. Sure there's typescript but that's not a whole sale replacement, the end result is still JavaScript.
Dart’s JS VM was reportedly faster than vanilla JS. It could have wholesale replaced JS if Google had really leaned into it.
Yeah but you've still got to convince everyone to rewrite all the JavaScript in it. That's a big ask even for Google with a faster VM. If they'd pushed it I would predict chrome market share taking a dive.
Personally I think they did the right thing pivoting away from trying to replace JavaScript.