Google layoffs hit Flutter team 😳

[dough-pizza]

How are developers supposed to trust google for any of its future ventures if this is the kind of shit they do? The damage has already been done and they'll always be playing catch-up with Microsoft and Amazon

[HemstitchedIrony]

Microsoft understands what Google doesn't, developer trust is incredibly important, and Google abuses it and it will hurt them long term

[shApYT]

Billion dollar company strat. Throw shit at the wall with your weak arm until something sticks. Use the strong arm to give the execs the good glug.

Nah, they ain't killing my boi flutter, nuh uh

[jaspervirtual]

As a developer I never invest time on their tools. The tools are excellent but their management is shit.

[Oryssounet]

"but it's open source ! It's not owned by Google, contributors will continue working on it"
What people told me when I said to avoid Flutter because it's made by Google

[sourabhverma]

Weird enough, at the same time they are pushing IDX, which showcases app development in browser powered by flutter. It seems google's different teams are not able to plan their approach around CEO's random unplanned decisions

[Andu]

so soon it's gonna be back to the basics? (vanilla js, php, html, css) 😅😅

[rafaeldietrich]

Shame since flutter was finally doing much better

[jchjkitv]

Btw they have a few apps already written in flutter not sure what's their plan

[MohamedEmad-hpxu]

If they had this mentality 10 years ago. They wouldn't have the android dominance they have today.
Sometimes you have to play the really long game.

[schism]

This is wild. I didn't follow Flutter, but I remember a while ago some major distro (I think Ubuntu) redid their installer with Flutter and everyone was like "Flutter is the future..." :\

Never invest time to google’s development tools, earlier or sooner it will leave you behind.

[lebenebou]

what happened brother. you can tell us.

I know that analogy didn’t come out of nowhere

[benaloney]

RIP Flutter, you were fun for a while 🙏

[DevlogBill]

You think Flutter will get killed off soon? What does your crystal ball says about Flutter?

[pineapplesandvibes]

Meta wouldn’t do this. All you angular developers better watch out, your days may be numbered.😮

[andrewbrower]

And here we are still waiting for php to die like everyone has guaranteed for years, meanwhile most the web still runs on it

[Miksa-oiwl]

But they did not get rid of flutter... Why you bury the framework, when the same has happened with a lot of other teams, such as python for example

[krtirtho]

At the end of the day it's a tool. If it's good enough for the community, it'll be around. Same way Nokia ditched QT but the community (KDE mostly) picked it up.

It's already one of the best cross-platform tool. Now, time to see if its worthy enough for the community