alt Hacker NewsFlutter has been abandoned by all the large companies - Google is throwing their weight in on KMP and has laid off the flutter teams.
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cageface • last Sunday at 1:42 AM
This is a large exaggeration. There are still a lot of people working on Flutter at Google and large companies continue to adopt it.
Google's wildly popular NotebookLM is a recently released Flutter app, for example.
websiteapi • last Sunday at 1:32 AM
I heard of the flutter layoffs, but my understand is that it was unrelated to KMP. fwiw google still uses flutter
wiseowise • last Sunday at 8:58 AM
Source?
> Google is throwing their weight in on KMP
Hahah.
mdhb • last Sunday at 7:30 AM
Just straight up making shit up here. WTF are you talking about?
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This is completely incorrect. Large companies like Canonical are all in on Flutter even now, they're making it the default for desktop UI development in Ubuntu and are writing a lot of their own apps in Flutter.
The "layoffs" were not any of the core team, it was just an offshoring, of infrastructure devs at Google that happened to work on Flutter builds, to Europe where they rehired for the same positions there.