alt Hacker NewsOnly because it was cheaper to migrate Android to Kotlin instead of Dart. JetBrains needs Google more than Google needs JetBrains.
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brabel • today at 11:59 AM
At the time Google went with Kotlin, Flutter was still very new and a much bigger step away from Java given Kotlin already back then was seamlessly integrated with Java and compiled to JVM bytecode.
There are several clues that the reasons were more political than monetary, including some former team members like Jake Warton remarks on Dart.
Note that Dart or Flutter are nowhere to be found on Android developer documentation.