This was featured in quite a few press pieces as something new and noteworthy and the link in reddit links to that piece. Its not really new since its a half baked project that might not survive to the full baking process. It gets media attention and upvotes because its a product from Google but the market has already shown very low interest in Dart and there are dozens of tools that do pretty much the same and far better that don't get such media coverage because they aren't from Google.

Unlike a companies such as Sun or Oracle, IBM etc. Google puts out a lot of tools that aren't really products in a method Eric Schmidt termed as "throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks". This is paying attention and upvoting for something that's clearly in the throwing against the wall stage. It sort of ignores the companies who are hard to work building SERIOUS tools to solve this problem.

We built a huge business on top of app engine so we sure as f*ck understand how it works. Google has a completely broken reporting system that doesn't provide any valuable information about data store read usage. You can either see every read operation you ever did or see the total. No way of tracking down which portion in the code is responsible for all the reads in production environment. Its effectively the same as your phone provider in a business with a million employees billing you for too many long distance calls without pointing the phone from which they were made... This was a repeated problem and we had to solve it again and again despite memcaching extensively this was a shot in the dark every time.

I was back and forth with Google on this and we did pay the full gold support level. They are moving everyone onto the new cloud infrastructure and just don't really care about everyone who worked on app engine.

I don't own shares in Google, I used to be a big fan but the sort of attitude above to paying customers drove me away.

I have a valid reason to distrust google. You are the one spreading hate back without really knowing anything about me. Do you work for Google?

I have quite a few dear friends who do. I still use it as my default search provider, I still use gmail & Android. My problem is with half baked non-products such as the one above and the fact that you can't really trust these things to be around unless they are core to Google's business.