Lets say developed at SV startup XYZ instead.
Lets say developed at SV startup XYZ instead.
I think it’s disingenuous to reduce Go success to some Google marketing operation. I dislike Google as a brand in the way they design products and their weak privacy stance, but I love Go nonetheless.
Being rescued by AdWords team, and now having Flutter team as their last hope.
Go hasn't suffered from such politics.
Let's not forget that Go is a mix of Oberon-2 and Limbo, both a failure regarding market adoption, in spite of their technical qualities.
Flutter was started by people in the chrome team, as an experimental project called sky.
With regards to making it possible to include the dart vm the oilpan project was started.
Oilpan, the replacement of reference counting in Blink, with a tracing garbage collector, this would have made it possible for dart vm to sit along side v8 in chrome.
Oilpan was started in 2013 and instead of taking months, it took years, I think it finally arrived in 2016. Here is a dart video from io 2013 announcing oilpan. https://youtu.be/huawCRlo9H4