They're even keeping GWT alive somehow. That was a major mistake, though. I remember building a large GWT project and the compile times just started getting into multiple minutes. Debugging was hard.
They are not. It's a third party fork that's keeping it alive. It's dead because Google didn't put any resources into it and just threw it out to see if it sticks. Then didn't keep up with the capabilities of JavaScript frameworks and didn't release any proper templates.
It never used GWT. They claimed GWT can be used to build apps like gmail and that was misleading. They didn't write it using GWT since it predated the existence of GWT.
I’m not sure why sarcasm is needed. Go lost to Rust as the mainstream safe systems language, k8s is a meme for wasted engineering resources, obviously Dart/Dash failed in its intention to replace JavaScript (I don’t know what ‘Chrome APIs’ are).
Despite ostensibly being a “systems language”. I see Go used more often for writing CRUD apps or APIs. There’s a lot more work in that then working in rust, thought I’ve admittedly been surprised with the amount of rust jobs I’ve seen.
Android is also terrible. As an Android developer it's the absolute worst when compared to iOS development. Google is an Ad company, everything else it does is a hobby.