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The short answer is that the Flutter team wanted a language that was something like Dart, and the Dart team needed a killer app and was willing to put a lot of effort into satisfying Flutter's requirements.

It's unlikely that Flutter could have gotten that level of cooperation and influence over a more successful language, back when they were getting started and nobody had heard of them yet.



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