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The difference with other Google projects is that Flutter is open source[1][2], one can fork it and continue the project if Google decides not to work on it any

• jmull 8y ago
  One could. But let's suppose Google provides the contributors making up the bulk of the people with key responsibilities on the project for five years and then decides to withdraw them. It's possible for the project to continue and be healthy, but you are going to face a large disruption. You're suddenly going to need to fill a lot of key positions -- developers, designers, managers, etc. The direction of the project could change radically as the new people controlling the project don't share the same vision for it as the old ones. All-in-all, it is likely to prove fatal or cause a radical transformation, and the resources for enhancements are likely to be much more modest.
• rhinoceraptor 8y ago
  Open source won't save you if you write your app in a framework that's deprecated and no good developers want to touch it (see also: Angular 1).
• xenihn 8y ago
  I think we'd see the same thing that happened with Parse after Facebook stopped supporting it. I.e. the vast majority of people who were previously using it would stop, despite continued maintenance by an open source community.