>*It's apparently the primary language for Google Ads.* That's Dart, not Flutter... | Hacker News

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		coldtea on April 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flutter desktop shells >It's apparently the primary language for Google Ads. That's Dart, not Flutter. And even so, Dart transpiles to JS for the Google Ads. They could switch to plain JS, or Typescript, or even move to a whole new implementation of Google Ads, and pull the plug. They also used to use GWT, did that hold on?

Apocryphon on April 25, 2019 [–]

It did for nearly a dozen years.

SlowRobotAhead on April 25, 2019 | [–]

Is that a good life for a programming language? It doesn't seem long compared to others.

Apocryphon on April 25, 2019 | | [–]

GWT lasted 11 years.

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