[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.

[pjmlp]

Despite the HN hate, Oracle is still doing a better service than Sun was on their dying years.

And lets not forget no one else bothered, beyond a timid attempt from IBM, which I think would have been probably worse as Java steward.

Google just hoped that Sun would have died in silence as way to settle their wrongdoings.

[nailer]

> Java is definitely not doing well compared to .Net even though it is open source

Depends on whather you consider Dalvik (or whatever the current Android Java tech is) to be Java - in which case, it is.