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Serendipitous that just a few days back, I received an email stating that my unused Google Playstore Developer account was going to be shut down. I had only mad

Serendipitous that just a few days back, I received an email stating that my unused Google Playstore Developer account was going to be shut down. I had only made and taken off one app some years back, and that was built with Flutter, the only mobile app framework that I know. Thankfully I don't make a career out of Flutter, unlike some really talented exceptional folks like Remi Rousselet and Marcin Szalek. Imo, Flutter was such an awesome refresh in mobile, but lost their way when they messed around with Web dev, which was entrenched React territory, with a very shoddy experience. After this announcement, I'll be 100% going with React for my side projects.

krtirtho 3y ago
How's that Flutter's fault? Google shutting down the PlayStore account isn't really related to it at all. And, I'm pretty sure nobody uses Flutter to write blogposts. It's usually used in highly rich/interective sites aka webapps like Rive, Google Earth etc. And it's technology and there is no boundary where innovation stops. It's not like React is the ultimate JS framework. Also, it's kind of Flutter's nature to adapt new platforms. So, I wouldn't say they lost their way. Because if my mobile app can run on Web without much tinkering, I'm signed up for it. So, I'm honestly kind of confused with your opinion.
- fakedang 3y ago
  No, I'm not implying that it was the Google Playstore's fault. I just meant to say that Flutter was awesome when they were mobile focused, and that's the reason I started developing some apps. It's just coincidental that my account got shut down by Google for misuse, when Google shuts down the team building the app framework I used. No shade on Flutter at all (except flutter web, which is still kinda shit). I actually feel a bit sad that there will be no company left out there willing to pick up the slack. > Because if my mobile app can run on Web without much tinkering, I'm signed up for it. Except it won't. You'll suffer from poor SEO, poor rendering, poor performance, everything bad about Flutter. And all unnecessarily.

krtirtho 3y ago

How's that Flutter's fault? Google shutting down the PlayStore account isn't really related to it at all. And, I'm pretty sure nobody uses Flutter to write blogposts. It's usually used in highly rich/interective sites aka webapps like Rive, Google Earth etc. And it's technology and there is no boundary where innovation stops. It's not like React is the ultimate JS framework. Also, it's kind of Flutter's nature to adapt new platforms. So, I wouldn't say they lost their way. Because if my mobile app can run on Web without much tinkering, I'm signed up for it. So, I'm honestly kind of confused with your opinion.

fakedang 3y ago
No, I'm not implying that it was the Google Playstore's fault. I just meant to say that Flutter was awesome when they were mobile focused, and that's the reason I started developing some apps. It's just coincidental that my account got shut down by Google for misuse, when Google shuts down the team building the app framework I used. No shade on Flutter at all (except flutter web, which is still kinda shit). I actually feel a bit sad that there will be no company left out there willing to pick up the slack. > Because if my mobile app can run on Web without much tinkering, I'm signed up for it. Except it won't. You'll suffer from poor SEO, poor rendering, poor performance, everything bad about Flutter. And all unnecessarily.