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by fleetfox 3733 days ago
I thought impetus is behind dart, not go. I don't know much about mobile. Maybe someone could elaborate?
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Isn't Dart for browsers? And it looks like WebAssembly might overtake Dart there. Maybe that would work for Chrome Web Apps on Android, I haven't tried.

For native apps, I think it's still mainly Java, tho JetBrains is promoting Kotlin as an alternative.

The way I remember it dart was released to replace javascript as an actual viable sane language for apps, which means it could double as a longterm replacement for smartphone apps as well.

Mozilla resisted dart in the browser and focused heavily on improving javascript which left dart dead in the water.