[fmstephe]

I think this isn't quite true. From my perspective, Go did get a massive boost but not from Google. The language was originally designed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

It is fair to say that without those names attached I would have likely passed it by. Google is boring, but those three names, for me at least, I had to take a look.

[SwellJoe]

If Google could make a language popular, where does Dart fit into the story? People seem to love Go, and with very little encouragement from Google. I don't see a lot of love for Dart...though everyone who's played with it seems to like it well enough.

[pjmlp]

Dart was betrayed by Chrome and Angular teams as they decided to drop support for it.

Let's see if Flutter and Fuschia teams manage to push adoption for Dart.