On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 13:05:14 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:42:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
People are not abandoning Dart because shows any signs of
being a dead or a bad language, they do it because they don't
trust Google.
My experience is many believe in corporate backing. Is it just
PR?
I don't know, but I think so. Lack of stability in Google forward
looking statements causing trust issues? It would probably be
different if Google offered support contracts.
I also suspect that Google projects are perceived as being too
big to be taken over by an open source community, thus a move to
github can be viewed as an long term attempt to ditch the project
while saving face.
I don't think the idea that "open source means nobody can take it
away from us" is something people believe in now that there are
so many open source projects.
