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by toastal 2310 days ago
Is there a conspiratorial side of Mozilla vs Google in this Rust vs Dart story?
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The languages are as different as Python and C++, I honestly don't really see a Rust vs Dart story. Note that Rust is approved for use within much of the source tree, but outside it is only not supported. Johnny end-developer, whoever that is, could still use Rust if he insisted, coding against C bindings.
Just like it happens in Android.

If Johnny doesn't like JVM languages, or C++, all they get is a bare bones C API, which requires JNI even for opening files, asking for permissions and so forth.

I don't know what "conspiracy" you might be referring to. There's a natural tendency for organizations to gravitate toward tools, such as programming languages, that originated there. That's just human nature, though, not anything nefarious.