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by iainmerrick 3368 days ago
I think this is a symptom of internal rivalries at Google. Seems like a combination of Dart (arch-rival to Go) and ChromeOS (arch-rival to Android).

That's not necessarily a bad thing -- Google's M.O. has always been to try lots of different things at once. But it may mean they literally don't have a solid long-term plan for it yet.
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weberc2 3368 days ago
"arch-rivals"? That's overly dramatic. Go and Dart are hardly competing with each other, as are ChromeOS and Android.
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iainmerrick 3368 days ago
I was being a little tongue-in-cheek, sure, but only slightly. They're both fairly recent languages, both representing a vision of how to fix the mistakes of the past. I'm sure the leaders of the teams see each other as rivals.
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greenhouse_gas 3368 days ago
Yup, and the end user/developer suffers.

Why should I rewrite my Android app just because Google can't work out their internal politics?

And yes, I know that you'll probably be able to run Android apps on Fuchsia, but what about bitrot? Will JVM-language based Android be put on Life Support?

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