One advantage of snaps for developers is that if one is already developing on Ubuntu or Debian, the build and runtime dependencies of a snap can be expressed di

One advantage of snaps for developers is that if one is already developing on Ubuntu or Debian, the build and runtime dependencies of a snap can be expressed directly in terms of the packages in the distribution's repositories. To build a flatpak requires one to hunt down the original sources and figure out how to build them like what people did before the era of package managers.