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It's such an interesting thing. I'd say yes if I was with other googlers, because that's the most true answer. On the other side, I'd say the short sighted thi
by refulgentis 2y ago
It's such an interesting thing. I'd say yes if I was with other googlers, because that's the most true answer.
On the other side, I'd say the short sighted thing was not being brave enough to keep going. I worked on Android, and _much_ prefer the Flutter stack*, to the point you could say that's part of the reason I left. I believe it's a revolution in dev efficiency.
That being said, Flutter doesnt need Fuchsia, and Fuchsia didn't need to replace the kernel on the hubs, and when it did, there were contemporaneous issues with the hubs being janky that just would have killed absolutely any practical argument for Fuchsia they would be having 6 layers above me.
* By Flutter stack, I just mean, flutter. a significant feature of my last 3 years there was being the dude on Android randomly writing flutter - I was doing high stakes UI prototyping and thought it was friggin awesome that it A) worked on web, so I could easily share things with designers without needing an android build B) used skia on web, so if it worked there, it was clear it could work on Android C) eventually when my stuff was cross-org regularly, a Flutter demo objectively set a floor for performance on any platform it might deploy it
- cageface 2y agoI also really like Flutter and think the Flutter team has done a great job on the tech side. Google management, on the other hand, seems determined to do some very short sighted cost cutting and that makes a project like Flutter vulnerable.