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You could say this about any Google technology.

• rvz 3y ago
  I know right? Just like Golang, Kubernetes, Chrome APIs, etc /s
  • sgt 3y ago
    They're even keeping GWT alive somehow. That was a major mistake, though. I remember building a large GWT project and the compile times just started getting into multiple minutes. Debugging was hard.
    • invalidname 3y ago
      They are not. It's a third party fork that's keeping it alive. It's dead because Google didn't put any resources into it and just threw it out to see if it sticks. Then didn't keep up with the capabilities of JavaScript frameworks and didn't release any proper templates.
      • nailer 3y ago
        Did gmail migrate off GWT?
        • invalidname 3y ago
          It never used GWT. They claimed GWT can be used to build apps like gmail and that was misleading. They didn't write it using GWT since it predated the existence of GWT.
          • sgt 3y ago
            When I checked 2-3 years ago, Google Cloud portal was based on GWT.
          • nailer 3y ago
            Thanks. Did any well known Google apps use GWT?
            • invalidname 3y ago
              I think Wave was written in it... Not sure if there were others.
  • nailer 3y ago
    I’m not sure why sarcasm is needed. Go lost to Rust as the mainstream safe systems language, k8s is a meme for wasted engineering resources, obviously Dart/Dash failed in its intention to replace JavaScript (I don’t know what ‘Chrome APIs’ are).
    • quickthrower2 3y ago
      Go lost to Rust. Citation?
      • nailer 3y ago
        Is one needed? Rust is in the Linux kernel, in the Windows kernel, and is used by the most active blockchain.
        • chairhairair 3y ago
          Those are some true measures of success right there.
          • nailer 3y ago
            Yes, those are incredibly important projects.
    • aatd86 3y ago
      I don't even know how to write a linked list in Rust... Dang! I'm doomed... :o)
    • the_only_law 3y ago
      Despite ostensibly being a “systems language”. I see Go used more often for writing CRUD apps or APIs. There’s a lot more work in that then working in rust, thought I’ve admittedly been surprised with the amount of rust jobs I’ve seen.
  • quickthrower2 3y ago
    V8; GCP; Protobuf;
  • invalidname 3y ago
    App Engine or even GCP. Reader etc. Android is also terrible. As an Android developer it's the absolute worst when compared to iOS development. Google is an Ad company, everything else it does is a hobby.