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Yeah, I tried Flutter for a project and there was a lot to like about it. But it's very much a Google project. On the one hand, that's great, as they've been ab

Yeah, I tried Flutter for a project and there was a lot to like about it. But it's very much a Google project. On the one hand, that's great, as they've been able to do a lot of interesting stuff. But Google is just so fickle that I'd hate to bet that they'll keep going with it.

Apocryphon 4y ago
It's open-source, at least. It seems to be popular enough in Asia that if Google abandoned it that Alibaba or someone might be interested enough to pick it up. https://twitter.com/taodong/status/1141603862740008960 https://twitter.com/taodong/status/1141603862740008960 (thread) Canonical saying Flutter is the future of Ubuntu desktop apps is something too, but I'm not sure how much it's caught on since when it was announced in July 2020. https://canonical.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far https://canonical.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far
- phillipcarter 4y ago
  The wonderful thing about making everything OSS, and also why execs hate it, is it gives up a degree of control to kill something at a moment's notice. And so Dart/Flutter are in a good place!
  - busterarm 4y ago
    It's an important point to understand that it's not the flexibility to kill it but the flexibility to divert its resources elsewhere. You lose that with OSS projects because you eventually end up with people screaming down your door and the visibility that brings. Also being assigned to work on these projects internally is career death. Both of these problems happened to Google Cloud's Terraform provider at some point and it was a headache for the company and the community. Luckily Terraform adoption is out of Google's hands. They're just forced to play ball. OTOH, Google could easily kill off Flutter via other means.
- Illniyar 4y ago
  Flutter is basically a custom rendering engine with massive effort to create pixel perfect compatability with native offerings. If google drops the ball on it, I doubt there is any company that can take on maintaining something like that. If google drops support for flutter, the next design update by ios or android would kill it.

Apocryphon 4y ago

It's open-source, at least. It seems to be popular enough in Asia that if Google abandoned it that Alibaba or someone might be interested enough to pick it up. https://twitter.com/taodong/status/1141603862740008960 https://twitter.com/taodong/status/1141603862740008960 (thread) Canonical saying Flutter is the future of Ubuntu desktop apps is something too, but I'm not sure how much it's caught on since when it was announced in July 2020. https://canonical.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far https://canonical.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far

phillipcarter 4y ago
The wonderful thing about making everything OSS, and also why execs hate it, is it gives up a degree of control to kill something at a moment's notice. And so Dart/Flutter are in a good place!
- busterarm 4y ago
  It's an important point to understand that it's not the flexibility to kill it but the flexibility to divert its resources elsewhere. You lose that with OSS projects because you eventually end up with people screaming down your door and the visibility that brings. Also being assigned to work on these projects internally is career death. Both of these problems happened to Google Cloud's Terraform provider at some point and it was a headache for the company and the community. Luckily Terraform adoption is out of Google's hands. They're just forced to play ball. OTOH, Google could easily kill off Flutter via other means.
Illniyar 4y ago
Flutter is basically a custom rendering engine with massive effort to create pixel perfect compatability with native offerings. If google drops the ball on it, I doubt there is any company that can take on maintaining something like that. If google drops support for flutter, the next design update by ios or android would kill it.