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0 pointsLinXitoW2y ago0 comments

Go has succeeded because it's not horrible and supported and used by one of the biggest companies out there. That means you end up with a long list of decent libraries, which to me feels like the main factor of success for a language.

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sethammons2y ago

Why has Dart not taken off?

pjmlp2y ago

Because politics, Google wanted to do an hostile takeover JavaScript, it backfired, Chrome dropped DartiumVM, and they only got rescued thanks AdWords.

Key language designers left after this.

However it seems to have enough management support, that since it found an home in Flutter, I would assert there are having more adoption than Xamarin, React Native or Cordova.

lenkite2y ago

Dart is advertised as a client-optimized language. Optimized for UI is what the home page says. Say Goodbye to convincing people to use it on the server.

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