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Re:Flutter desktop shells by skybrian on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:36AM (#19749234)
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.

Re:Flutter desktop shells by stephenr on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:31PM (#19749785)
So, dart is safe until google moves onto the next thing it invents.

How’s GWT looking these days?

Re:Flutter desktop shells by Apocryphon on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:37PM (#19749848)
It lasted for about eleven years which is not bad as far as frameworks go.
Re:Flutter desktop shells by SlowRobotAhead on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:24PM (#19750384)
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.
Re:Flutter desktop shells by skybrian on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:36PM (#19750536)
Looks like it occasionally gets an update, even though the GWT team moved on to j2cl.

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

Re:Flutter desktop shells by moocowtruck on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:12PM (#19749597)
right but the money maker of adwords is not in dart at all, common lisp i think?
Re:Flutter desktop shells by skybrian on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:49PM (#19750678)
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.