Yeah, but Lars Bak isn't exactly a nobody when it comes to computer science either. Although I guess Bak is more famous for the implementation of programming languages than their design.

Aside: funny how Dart and TS both have Danish creators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)

Google politics, Dart is only around thanks to AdWords team, and Flutter.

Jetpack Compose was created by Android team exactly as counter reaction to Flutter.

Go got lucky with their internal advocacy, and the push to rewrite Kubernetes from Java into Go.

Google isn't exactly known for great programming language design, contrary to runtime implementations.

I may be misremembering, but my recollection is that Dart was written off in large part because of Google. Distrust with them was already high as they were abusing their dominance with things like AMP, and people felt it was a bad idea to give them even more control over the web.