Dart pre-dates Flutter by a few years and had failed (a couple of times) as a web development language before Flutter chose to employ it. Would Dart be around today, outside of Google if not for Flutter? Seems unlikely.
Flutter indeed did decide to pick a niche language, albeit one that was used internally at Google. Tim Sneath discusses it on Software Engineering Radio:
Dart pre-dates Flutter by a few years and had failed (a couple of times) as a web development language before Flutter chose to employ it. Would Dart be around today, outside of Google if not for Flutter? Seems unlikely.
Flutter indeed did decide to pick a niche language, albeit one that was used internally at Google. Tim Sneath discusses it on Software Engineering Radio:
https://www.se-radio.net/2020/12/episode-437-tim-sneath-on-a...