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Because it’s built and supported by Google and it would be a dumb career move to tie your horse to anything Google creates. It will probably be abandoned. Goo

Because it’s built and supported by Google and it would be a dumb career move to tie your horse to anything Google creates. It will probably be abandoned. Google has the attention span of a crack addled flea

alberth 4y ago
Like Go Lang?
- lawgimenez 4y ago
  Like Android?
  - scarface74 4y ago
- deleted 4y ago
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- donatj 4y ago
  lol I hope not, it's a big chunk of what I do these days
- markmark 4y ago
  Completely reasonable to at least wait and see for stuff Google launches. Go has survived long enough to adopt. Flutter (the only reason to use Dart anymore) hasn't, and is exactly the sort of project they regularly kill off, or decide they got wrong and release Flutter 2 with no migration strategy.
  - cercatrova 4y ago
    This shows me you have not used nor even heard about Flutter, because not only have they released Flutter 2, they have also released Flutter 3 recently.
    - scarface74 4y ago
      How many of Google’s cross platforms apps use Flutter? Google Sheets? Google Drive? Google Maps? Gmail?
    - markmark 4y ago
      Wow, it's even worse than I thought.
TheDong 4y ago
This explanation doesn't work for me. Google is behind Android, and there's a ton of android developers. It took off. Google built Golang, and there's a ton of Go developers. It took off. Google built Angular and Dart, and they each had much less success and didn't take off. The "Dart isn't popular because it's backed by google" theory doesn't seem sufficient based on the above. A more reasonable theory would be that the answer to "Why isn't X popular" is that the vast majority of things _aren't_ popular. Why isn't D-lang popular? Why isn't Crystal popular? Why didn't Elm take off? None of those are made by google, but it turns out that building a user-base of a programming language is hard no matter what.
- scarface74 4y ago
  How is Stadia doing? Google Chrome apps? Google Chatbase? Google Poly? Google Loon? Google Fiber (where Google literally left a city’s streets in ruins https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/google-fiber-exits-louisville-after-shoddy-installs-left-exposed-wires-in-roads/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...), Google Fibrr TV,
  - cercatrova 4y ago
    Consumer apps are the ones that are killed off, not developer or B2B products.
    - scarface74 4y ago
      The companies who invested money in Stadia may not have the same opinion. There is also Google Cloud IOT Core, Conversation Actions, Android Things, Google Chatbase, and even the original Angular was abandoned by a completely incompatible framework.
      - cercatrova 4y ago
        > The companies who invested money in Stadia may not have the same opinion. That has no relation to whether something is B2C or B2B. Stadia is a consumer product, ie for consumers. You have a point there about those other ones, but honestly, those are so few and far between that I'm sure you had to search somewhat carefully to find them. I highly doubt many devs were actually using those (besides Angular, but it was replaced with 2+ because React came onto the scene, it didn't get deprecated with no replacement).

alberth 4y ago

Like Go Lang?

lawgimenez 4y ago
Like Android?
- scarface74 4y ago
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donatj 4y ago
lol I hope not, it's a big chunk of what I do these days
markmark 4y ago
Completely reasonable to at least wait and see for stuff Google launches. Go has survived long enough to adopt. Flutter (the only reason to use Dart anymore) hasn't, and is exactly the sort of project they regularly kill off, or decide they got wrong and release Flutter 2 with no migration strategy.
- cercatrova 4y ago
  This shows me you have not used nor even heard about Flutter, because not only have they released Flutter 2, they have also released Flutter 3 recently.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    How many of Google’s cross platforms apps use Flutter? Google Sheets? Google Drive? Google Maps? Gmail?
  - markmark 4y ago
    Wow, it's even worse than I thought.

TheDong 4y ago

This explanation doesn't work for me. Google is behind Android, and there's a ton of android developers. It took off. Google built Golang, and there's a ton of Go developers. It took off. Google built Angular and Dart, and they each had much less success and didn't take off. The "Dart isn't popular because it's backed by google" theory doesn't seem sufficient based on the above. A more reasonable theory would be that the answer to "Why isn't X popular" is that the vast majority of things _aren't_ popular. Why isn't D-lang popular? Why isn't Crystal popular? Why didn't Elm take off? None of those are made by google, but it turns out that building a user-base of a programming language is hard no matter what.

scarface74 4y ago
How is Stadia doing? Google Chrome apps? Google Chatbase? Google Poly? Google Loon? Google Fiber (where Google literally left a city’s streets in ruins https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/google-fiber-exits-louisville-after-shoddy-installs-left-exposed-wires-in-roads/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...), Google Fibrr TV,
- cercatrova 4y ago
  Consumer apps are the ones that are killed off, not developer or B2B products.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    The companies who invested money in Stadia may not have the same opinion. There is also Google Cloud IOT Core, Conversation Actions, Android Things, Google Chatbase, and even the original Angular was abandoned by a completely incompatible framework.
    - cercatrova 4y ago
      > The companies who invested money in Stadia may not have the same opinion. That has no relation to whether something is B2C or B2B. Stadia is a consumer product, ie for consumers. You have a point there about those other ones, but honestly, those are so few and far between that I'm sure you had to search somewhat carefully to find them. I highly doubt many devs were actually using those (besides Angular, but it was replaced with 2+ because React came onto the scene, it didn't get deprecated with no replacement).