Giliad is also a personality from language research hardly known by UNIX fans.
The chrome team had "been wanting to fix Webkit for a very long time, and the Blink fork made that possible"
Moving Blink from ref counting to a traced GC was part of that fix, it also was required to be completed to allow the Dart VM to be added to chrome. What was supposed to take months took years and with no end in sight the Dart team announced that its VM would not ship with chrome.
Lars announces the oilpan project Google I/O 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2850&v=huawCRlo9...
With Dart going down the flutter path, work on the dart iot project, dartino stop. Thanks again, just starting to watch the video now.
What this has got to do with Dart's popularity outside Google?
> Giliad is also a personality from language research hardly known by UNIX fans.
So unix fans did not let a superior language which was designed by real language researcher like Dart win?
Just like WebAssembly wouldn't be a thing had PNaCL been accepted by others.
For UNIX fans, whatever a former Bell Labs researcher states is gold, no criticism whatsoever allowed.