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Google Ads is the reason why Dart was still around when Flutter came to be in first place.

After Dart's failure, Google Ads had just migrated from GWT into AngularDart, they weren't going to go through yet another rewrite, thus they rescued Dart from being fully rampeddown.

It is also the reason why AngularDart stayed around, when the Angular team decided to adopt TypeScript.

Correct. I do believe the Dart team is fully under the ads org as a result of that, or at least, was for a while.

non-sense, very tiny piece was in Dart ever. (top menu was written in Dart and thrown away as soon as angular came)

Total non-sense. 0% of Google Ads is in Dart/AngularDart there was 0.00000001% of Google Ads frontend was in Dart many many years ago.

I mean, I worked on Google Ads from 2017 to 2020… I’m not sure what you’re basing your comments on.

doesn't looks like really you did. :)

Every verb googlers use start with 'f' when they talk about Dart/AngularDart.