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pjmlp on May 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Angular v16

Google Ads is the reason why Dart was still around when Flutter came to be in first place.

After Dart's failure, Google Ads had just migrated from GWT into AngularDart, they weren't going to go through yet another rewrite, thus they rescued Dart from being fully rampeddown.

It is also the reason why AngularDart stayed around, when the Angular team decided to adopt TypeScript.

strongpigeon on May 5, 2023 | [–]

Correct. I do believe the Dart team is fully under the ads org as a result of that, or at least, was for a while.

mkrishnan on May 5, 2023 | [–]

non-sense, very tiny piece was in Dart ever. (top menu was written in Dart and thrown away as soon as angular came)

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