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Is Dart's lack of popularity in spite of its author's employer, then?
by jstarks 6y ago
Is Dart's lack of popularity in spite of its author's employer, then?
- pjmlp 6y agoBecause it was dropped on the floor by the Chrome team, which lead to the original team leaving Google. Original Go team did not suffer from this.
- pcwalton 6y agoDart's lack of popularity is indeed in spite of the Google backing. I basically see two reasons. First, though Lars Bak has an impressive pedigree, Strongtalk and V8 aren't as well-known as Plan 9 and Unix. Moreover, rightly or wrongly, Dart had the appearance of "Google's attempt to kill JS", which neither endeared it to Web developers (who were riding a wave of JavaScript hype at the time) nor to other browser manufacturers (who were growing increasingly distrustful of Google's initiatives).