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Re:Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform by realusername on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @10:56PM (#17712875)
> What was Python's killer app?

Not a killer app, but the fact you have so many ML frameworks

> What is Rust's killer app?

That's clearly Servo.

> Go?

It was docker which really made Go take off, it was their first big platform.

> Kotlin's?

Android compatibility, before that it was a niche language not being picked up much.

Re:Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform by jay_kyburz on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:33PM (#17713030)
Python already won before ML was a thing.
Re:Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform by realusername on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:48PM (#17713070)
In his early days, Python did not need anything, it was simply nicer to use than the other languages. Nowadays ML is a big plus.
Re:Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform by pjmlp on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @03:29AM (#17713868)
It was called Zope.