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I think /* */ single-line comments is a pretty good indication.

> no one uses gemma 3 in prod anyway.

Umm, we do. It's still one of the best for eu countries support / help chatbot style. It's got good (best?) multilingual support ootb, it's very "safe" (won't swear, won't display chinese characters, etc) and it's pretty fast.

but it lacks system prompt support.

It lacks a deducated system prompt, but it was trained with and in practice works with the system prompt be the first message from the user.

Yep. Before gemma3 we where struggling with multilinguality on smaller European languages, and it is still one of the batter ones in that regard (even large open or closed models struggle with this to some extent). Gemma3 also is still pretty decent multi modal wise.

I didn't know this was a thing until I read this thread but I can confirm that it does fine(not perfect by any means just like the average casual non-native fluent speaker) and it is one of the reasons I use it as my local model.

I don't have firsthand knowledge, but r/SesameAI seems to believe Maya/Miles products are based on a Gemma3 backbone.

Gemma3 is probably the best supported fine tunable model.