[scarface74]

With Google’s history of abandoning efforts like this, I wouldn’t spend too much effort using any language developed by them.

[wnsire]

> With Google’s history of abandoning efforts like this, I wouldn’t spend too much effort using any language developed by them.

Well , to be fair Go is becoming a major server side language and I don't see Google abandoning it any time soon.

That being said , Dart is basically on "life support" has of now , there is no SDK what so ever beside Google + Firebase , and I haven't heard anything from AWS / Azure or others vendors to support Dart + Flutter.

I feel like everyone is basically waiting for the language to take off to actually invest in it.

I'm afraid it will end up like Xamarin , a niche tech that will eventually die out because very little people accept the ecosystem that is forced on them by using the framework.

[ivm]

Xamarin is not dead and being actively developed. It just doesn't intersect with the startup scene because of its enterprise roots.

[kasperpeulen]

You don’t need more AWS support really. You can use any language that technology that AWS supports as the backend for a flutter app.

[scarface74]

Not if you want to use Lambda. You could write your own wrapper for the AWS API's for other use cases, but you could also repeatedly hit your head with a hammer.

[scarface74]

I wouldn’t focus my medium term career prospects on Xamarin, but if I could quickly ramp up and do mobile development using it, I would.

[the_trapper]

From what I understand, AdWords is written in Dart. This alone means it's not disappearing anytime soon.

[scarface74]

And the server component of iTunes and the App Store is written in WebObjects.....

[the_trapper]

WebObjects isn't open source, Dart is.

[scarface74]

How has the open source nature of Dart helped so far?

Open source is not a panacea for a project that’s not popular and doesn’t have an active vibrant community around it.

[the_trapper]

Although it's not a guarantee that it'll stick around, the fact that it's open source greatly increases the probability.

GWT is actually still very much alive even though Google abandoned it years ago.

[scarface74]

Is that something you are willing to bet a major architectural decision on and/or your career?

I’ve been a Microsoft developer for over 20 years and a .Net developer for over 10. Even though I don’t see .Net “dying”, it’s also not a major growth opportunity.

Java is definitely not doing well compared to .Net even though it is open source - because of the mismanagement of Oracle. I see dart going down the same road.

As much as I prefer .Net to the JavaScript ecosystem, I am tying my horse to it. I’m focusing my attention on everything JavaScript over the next year (yes it makes me sad).

Until four months ago, I had never touched Python. But the more I got into AWS, the more I realized that the ecosystem around AWS and Python seemed to be the strongest. So Python it was.

[bseidensticker]

Adwords frontend was completely rewritten in Dart. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.