People keep saying that in Flutter threads, but it appears to be a small app for managing your ads? If it's just this, it wouldn't be hard to replace:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-ads/id1037457231?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Via https://flutter.dev/showcase

Not just mobile. Dart (though not Flutter) is also used by the AdWords web app, which is quite enormous.

That said, Adwords used to be written in GWT. It's not impossible to migrate, but quite a big job.

So, dart is safe until google moves onto the next thing it invents.

How’s GWT looking these days?

It lasted for about eleven years which is not bad as far as frameworks go.

But this isn't a framework alone. It's a framework (flutter) and a language (dart). And at this point both are entirely dependent on each other, if I'm not mistaken.

Looks like it occasionally gets an update, even though the GWT team moved on to j2cl.

https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt/+log

right but the money maker of adwords is not in dart at all, common lisp i think?

I don't know what you mean? Google has many large ad customers who use the web UI to manage their campaigns.

Common Lisp was rarely used at Google when I was there, though it's a big company and you do see a little of everything, sometimes due to acquisitions. You might be thinking of ITA software, which is (was?) used for airline reservations.

>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?

It did for nearly a dozen years.

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

GWT lasted 11 years.