It's a shame, I was a HUGE dart for backend proponent. I made libraries and even middleware for API servers and such. I was constantly fighting to get ANY focus on the backend standard libs. In the end, I had to give up and stopped fighting. I still maintain my uuid, base32, and otp libraries, just upgraded them for 2.0, but Its a shame because Dart could have so easily competed with Node.js and it was a major replacement for it for me.