Honestly, this baffles me. If I just wanted a language with a static type system, I could already have my pick of the litter, and Dart as a language doesn't really have any unique selling points outside of gradual typing.
On top of that is the problem that Dart's type system – at least as it stands right now – is pretty weak (another point against it vs. other statically languages). I feel like I'd be getting a watered-down Java/C#. That was okay so far, because gradual typing allowed you to work around the problems in the type system. But with mandatory strong mode, that makes answering "why Dart?" much harder now.
