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Re:What's New in Flutter 3.47 by skybrian on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:46PM (#49281243)
Sure, Adwords migrated from GWT to Dart. (And eventually I followed.) At one point, Dart moved from the Chrome division to the Adwords division. And Adwords alone can fund a team to do developer tools for them. Then, Flutter came a bit later.

It's been over a decade since then, though, and I'm out of touch now.

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Re:What's New in Flutter 3.47 by pjmlp on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:28AM (#49282073)
In fact AdWords is the reason Dart was still around when Flutter came to be.
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Re:What's New in Flutter 3.47 by spwa4 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:12AM (#49283404)
They still maintaining it's predecessor that the Google "core properties" ran on: Closure (not Clojure), the javascript compiler. It's an evolution of the hack that Gmail initially was built on.
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