When I refer to a project starting yesterday, in case it was too difficult to understand, I was implicitly asking you for non-posthoc justifications for choosing Kotlin _in 2014_ to build a UI framework that

- should target multiple mobile and desktop platforms (and not, like you seem to think, Android first or alone)

- is a game engine style, Skia-backed project, which you are essentially trying to pick a scripting language for.

So, do you actually have anything to back up Dart's runtime being a worse investment than your proposed ideas (which seem to be "go the way of Multi-OS Engine, that notoriously successful project" and/or "wait half a decade more for AOT compilation that would still be in beta and in a worse state than what we already have")?

Okay, so what does that have to do with Kotlin being an even worse choice I