Google internally uses dart, and I remember hearing that adwords in particular was rewritten in dart at least for the frontend relatively recently.

So they're probably investing in it enough for basic maintenance, but don't really care about evolving the language.

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skybrian 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, Adwords migrated from GWT to Dart. (And eventually I followed.) At one point, Dart moved from the Chrome division to the Adwords division. And Adwords alone can fund a team to do developer tools for them. Then, Flutter came a bit later.

It's been over a decade since then, though, and I'm out of touch now.

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pjmlp 6 hours ago | parent [-]

In fact AdWords is the reason Dart was still around when Flutter came to be.

	▲	spwa4 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They still maintaining it's predecessor that the Google "core properties" ran on: Closure (not Clojure), the javascript compiler. It's an evolution of the hack that Gmail initially was built on.