> ongoing support, patching, commitment from the vendor is ab-so-lute-ly necessary. This is why Rails succeeded, for example. This doesn't make any sense -- th

> ongoing support, patching, commitment from the vendor is ab-so-lute-ly necessary. This is why Rails succeeded, for example. This doesn't make any sense -- there is no "the vendor" providing those things for Rails. If anything, this illustrates the parent's point that the Dart community (like the Rails community) can support the Dart compiler and other tools if Google ever pulls back from it.