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		mwattsun on Jan 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to... I was really drawn to Dart when it came out in 2012 and still use it for hobby projects. I know Google uses it internally a lot and is used in the experimental Fuchsia OS. And of course Flutter. I wish Google would put more resources into doing the next version. It appears Bob Nystrom is the only person working on it https://old.reddit.com/r/dartlang/comments/rvqivf/what_is_th... I wrote a fairly complicated web app in 2013 in Dart. I just updated it to Dart 2.0 and nullability and it still works, which impressed me. Someday people will catch on to Dart, probably if and when Fuchsia gets popular https://fuchsia.dev/

pjmlp on Jan 9, 2022 | [–]

Fuchsia for the time being is the Nest OS, if it ever gets used somewhere else remains to be seen, given Google's attention span.

Hixie on Jan 10, 2022 | [–]

There's a lot more than one person working on Dart!

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