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I seriously thought Dart was abandoned. Is it actually being used outside of Google?

• pjmlp 7y ago
  Living under a rock? It was rescued by the AdWords team, and later the Flutter team decided to use it instead of JavaScript, in the process they turned Dart into a strongly typed language with type inference (thus everyone from the dynamic camp left the design team), and nowadays the future of Flutter and Dart are tied together. Flutter became enough of a nuisance that Android team has now come up with Jetpack Composer, to detriment of the existing Android UI toolkits, because they need to have their Java/Kotlin Flutter.
  • Aissen 7y ago
    Quoting HN rules: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Your comment would have been quite helpful if you just removed the first line.
    • pjmlp 7y ago
      Noted.
• WaltPurvis 7y ago
  Dart was the fastest-growing language (growing more than 500% YoY) in the latest GitHub State of the Octoverse report. https://octoverse.github.com/ https://octoverse.github.com/ It's #23 in the current TIOBE index. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ It's a long, long way from being as widely used as the top 10 languages, but many people outside of Google are using it. Since Dart is the language of Flutter, which is growing in popularity, it should substantially increase its user base in the years ahead.
• latchkey 7y ago
  I think that Flutter is helping a lot with the adoption of Dart. I learned Dart to work on a Flutter project and ended up being quite impressed with it (and Flutter for that matter). Jetbrains IDE support is quite good too.