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Re:Swift is like Kotlin by tym0 on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:20AM (#14367409)
> Dart is not very popular within Google itself

I was under the impression that pretty much all the frontend work at google was compiled from Dart.

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Re:Swift is like Kotlin by yrio on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:59PM (#14371039)
Dart is used for AdWords [0] and AdSense [1]. Both of which account for 89% of Google's revenue.

It's also used for Google's internal CRM (Greentea), and Google Fiber.

[0] http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dar...

[1] http://news.dartlang.org/2016/10/google-adsense-angular-dart...

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Re:Swift is like Kotlin by _pmf_ on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:27AM (#14367474)
Only AdSense.
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Re:Swift is like Kotlin by MR_HANDS on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:38PM (#14368695)
Isn't AdSense a pretty big deal within google?
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Re:Swift is like Kotlin by JeremyBanks on Thursday May 18, 2017 @02:03PM (#14369528)
Yes, the Ads organization is huge and has a large influence on front-end development in general at Google.
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