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I’m frankly surprised Dart made a come back at all. I remember hearing a good bit about it and it’s lofty ambitions years ago, but then it seems like it kinda j
by the_only_law 4y ago
I’m frankly surprised Dart made a come back at all. I remember hearing a good bit about it and it’s lofty ambitions years ago, but then it seems like it kinda just fell off until Flutter.
- resoluteteeth 4y agoIn my opinion it was a huge mistake for them to use dart for flutter. I suspect that there would be a lot more excitement around flutter if it used javascript or kotlin (since a lot of android developers are already using kotlin). (They gave some explanation of why they picked dart at the time but it wasn't at all convincing.)
- cutler 4y agoThe original goal was for Dart to replace JS in Chrome.
- dragonwriter 4y agoThe original goal was for Dart to be generally adopted by browsers, more specifically, not for it to be Chrome-specific.
- andsoitis 4y agoIf true, by what stretch of the imagination did Google think browser vendors would adopt Dart?
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoArrogance is no stretch for Google.
- pjmlp 4y agoBy the same strech that they pushed PNaCL that others refused to adopt. Which is ironic, given the fizzling market share from Firefox, and how with exception of Safari, all other browsers are based on Chrome. So there is a certain irony that WASM is anyway driven by Google interests.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago> they pushed PNaCL that others refused to adopt. Well, they all did eventually adopt WebAssembly, so this effort did get somewhere, eventually.
- pjmlp 4y agoA pyrrhic victory for Mozilla.
- pjmlp 4y agoAdWords kept it alive until it got chosen by Flutter.