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Don't know much about nativescript, but picked up flutter 3 weeks back and am almost finished writing my first flutter app just coding during my free time. Feel

Don't know much about nativescript, but picked up flutter 3 weeks back and am almost finished writing my first flutter app just coding during my free time. Feels great coding in it and seems well thought out. Just my 2 cents

aaronbrethorst 5y ago
I've heard great things about Flutter, and Flutter 2 sounds very interesting. However, I don't trust Google not to get bored and change directions, and so I won't invest my time until Flutter is strategically important to their business.
- schmorptron 5y ago
  That's a good call, although if it becomes widely used outside of google, won't it be possible for a community to just fork it when google loses interest?
  - hultner 5y ago
    You mean like AngularJS (which is an entirely different framework then modern angular)
    - schmorptron 5y ago
      Hahaha, that was before my time, so no idea. But I was just guessing based on flutter being open source. Guess taking over a huge codebase from an entirely different team who was being paid for it full time isn't feasible even in the slightest?
      - hultner 5y ago
        After been bitten by Google’s “graveware” one time to many I don’t invest heavily into their ecosystems anymore. And in my experience the projects are either abandoned or fizzling into obscurity once Google pulls the plug even if an open source community could technically fork it and take over. But in reality usually people rather go on the next shiny thing instead.
- modeswitch 5y ago
  I had this conversation with a support engineer for Google Cloud one time. I mentioned that Google has a long history of dumping products that people rely on and he got really annoyed, as if that wasn't true. I don't know if they fully appreciate that they have a reputation for this.
  - Conlectus 5y ago
    Hard to want to believe something if it means nobody will care about your work no matter how good it is for reasons out of your control.

aaronbrethorst 5y ago

I've heard great things about Flutter, and Flutter 2 sounds very interesting. However, I don't trust Google not to get bored and change directions, and so I won't invest my time until Flutter is strategically important to their business.

schmorptron 5y ago
That's a good call, although if it becomes widely used outside of google, won't it be possible for a community to just fork it when google loses interest?
- hultner 5y ago
  You mean like AngularJS (which is an entirely different framework then modern angular)
  - schmorptron 5y ago
    Hahaha, that was before my time, so no idea. But I was just guessing based on flutter being open source. Guess taking over a huge codebase from an entirely different team who was being paid for it full time isn't feasible even in the slightest?
    - hultner 5y ago
      After been bitten by Google’s “graveware” one time to many I don’t invest heavily into their ecosystems anymore. And in my experience the projects are either abandoned or fizzling into obscurity once Google pulls the plug even if an open source community could technically fork it and take over. But in reality usually people rather go on the next shiny thing instead.
modeswitch 5y ago
I had this conversation with a support engineer for Google Cloud one time. I mentioned that Google has a long history of dumping products that people rely on and he got really annoyed, as if that wasn't true. I don't know if they fully appreciate that they have a reputation for this.
- Conlectus 5y ago
  Hard to want to believe something if it means nobody will care about your work no matter how good it is for reasons out of your control.