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by apta 2605 days ago
> but IMO Go would be another obscure language that no one cared about if it didn't come from Google.

The people who worked on golang also worked on another similar language called limbo before they were at google. You can guess where that one ended up.
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geodel 2605 days ago
The people who worked on Java also worked on Dart after joining Google. You can guess where it ended up.
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SureshG 2595 days ago
Dart had an initial hiccup, but I think things started changing with flutter - https://github.com/flutter/flutter
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apta 2605 days ago
They're not in the same market. Dart faced competition from TypeScript (same designer as C#, and also backed by Microsoft), and the latter seems to have won so far.
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