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It probably helped, but it is not at all the reason why it got that traction

For comparison see Dart which was pushed even more by Google (I still remember when we were being inundated by "dart is soon gonna replace javascript everywhere" posts/videos) and now has not even remotely the userbase of Go and it's just a niche language for its specific framework Flutter



TypeScript managed to be more successful than Dart in the whole "compile-to-JS" space.


Politics, the team behind Dart dropped it on the floor, and most of the original team left Google.

It was only rescued by AdWords team , and then Flutter team picked it up.

The Android team is also not in love with it, and Jetpac Compose is surely an reaction to it.




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