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by pjmlp 1061 days ago
Flutter/Dart is Fuchsia's UI framework.

Go was created by three folks that got fed up waiting on C++ compile times, and from their point of view Go is designed for people unable to take feature rich languages, on Rob Pike's own words.

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

Or alternatively,

"It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical."