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Flutter and Dart seemed to have been internal tools built by engineers looking for an interesting project to spend their time on while at Google. Kotlin swelle
by Larrikin 4y ago
Flutter and Dart seemed to have been internal tools built by engineers looking for an interesting project to spend their time on while at Google.
Kotlin swelled up around the limitations of Java 8 in outside organizations and took over the ecosystem so Android devs could be productive while Google was fighting with Oracle
- kaba0 4y agoJava was already open-source at the time so the court fight’s outcome was meaningless from the view of what language to choose. And Android would have been much better off if they didn’t fork the whole ecosystem and just used OpenJDK, perhaps with an added low-memory GC.