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what is up with all of these flutter articles on medium recently proclaiming that flutter is the second coming of app dev tools or something... almost like it w

what is up with all of these flutter articles on medium recently proclaiming that flutter is the second coming of app dev tools or something... almost like it was some kind of social media strategy... personally i find flutter interesting, but i don’t like that, hot reloading is for ui only, and the “pyramid of doom” style inline coding isn’t my cup of tea...

rahiche 8y ago
hot reload is not just for UI
75dvtwin 8y ago
Seems like an organized PR campaign, hidden behind developer blog posts. I was recently replying to a similar thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629385 I wish these tactics of subliminal agenda pushes, would stop already. https://chasegage.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/american-politics-the-agenda-setting-theory-and-the-new-england-patriots-propaganda-in-the-entertainment-industry/ https://chasegage.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/american-politics...
- sidcool 8y ago
  There's no conspiracy. Flutter is new, it's from Google and it's growing fast. Hence people are trying it out and blogging about it. Others are intrigued and reading the blogs and liking it. That's it.
- Apocryphon 8y ago
  If anything, astroturfing in tech blogs is probably less likely to be corporate funded, and more to be the sort of breathless SEO self-promotion from savvy self-marketers. Content creators on Medium, YouTube, Quora will latch onto any new tech in order to drive views, regardless of what tech it is.
pxtail 8y ago
Probably someone at google decided that fb gains too much influence over developers minds via Reac/ReactNative so they decided to make their own flavor and now they are just pumping some serious money into marketing.
addicted 8y ago
Probably because Flutter releases 1.0 last week so you’re seeing some folks writing about it now that it’s production ready and some additional articles by the folks waiting for the weekend to write about it.
alexitosrv 8y ago
Yeah, I am also noticing the same trend. A heavy push for flutter everywhere. It makes me wary, curious to try it but however to take it with a grain of salt.
therockhead 8y ago
Ikr >Flutter will enable full cross-platform development across iOS, Android, desktop, web and beyond with one codebase. I’ve seen desktop development mentioned a lot as well and was pretty excited, but right now it does not seem to support shortcuts, tabbing, drag and drop, multiple windows etc. Still, could be a very different story a year from now if Flutter starts to gather market share.
ksec 8y ago
As one get older, you seems to remember all these pitch for "Flutter" were exactly the same <insert X>. And given Google's extremely good track record on their product / services / and tools. I think I will take a pass for now.
digianarchist 8y ago
This is Google's last attempt at getting it's failed Dart language into the mainstream. I would not be surprised if they were actively coordinating this considering how hard they are pushing on YouTube.

rahiche 8y ago

hot reload is not just for UI

75dvtwin 8y ago

Seems like an organized PR campaign, hidden behind developer blog posts. I was recently replying to a similar thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629385 I wish these tactics of subliminal agenda pushes, would stop already. https://chasegage.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/american-politics-the-agenda-setting-theory-and-the-new-england-patriots-propaganda-in-the-entertainment-industry/ https://chasegage.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/american-politics...

sidcool 8y ago
There's no conspiracy. Flutter is new, it's from Google and it's growing fast. Hence people are trying it out and blogging about it. Others are intrigued and reading the blogs and liking it. That's it.
Apocryphon 8y ago
If anything, astroturfing in tech blogs is probably less likely to be corporate funded, and more to be the sort of breathless SEO self-promotion from savvy self-marketers. Content creators on Medium, YouTube, Quora will latch onto any new tech in order to drive views, regardless of what tech it is.

pxtail 8y ago

Probably someone at google decided that fb gains too much influence over developers minds via Reac/ReactNative so they decided to make their own flavor and now they are just pumping some serious money into marketing.

addicted 8y ago

Probably because Flutter releases 1.0 last week so you’re seeing some folks writing about it now that it’s production ready and some additional articles by the folks waiting for the weekend to write about it.

alexitosrv 8y ago

Yeah, I am also noticing the same trend. A heavy push for flutter everywhere. It makes me wary, curious to try it but however to take it with a grain of salt.

therockhead 8y ago

Ikr >Flutter will enable full cross-platform development across iOS, Android, desktop, web and beyond with one codebase. I’ve seen desktop development mentioned a lot as well and was pretty excited, but right now it does not seem to support shortcuts, tabbing, drag and drop, multiple windows etc. Still, could be a very different story a year from now if Flutter starts to gather market share.

ksec 8y ago

As one get older, you seems to remember all these pitch for "Flutter" were exactly the same <insert X>. And given Google's extremely good track record on their product / services / and tools. I think I will take a pass for now.

digianarchist 8y ago

This is Google's last attempt at getting it's failed Dart language into the mainstream. I would not be surprised if they were actively coordinating this considering how hard they are pushing on YouTube.