Not necessarily. They made substantial effort to make it ready. It seems more a low priority because there are already other solutions like Linux. Now with chatgpt and other, google is trying to focus her attention on the present and not in the future, which is more important. It's all about the money.

I'm more worried that if Fuchsia goes, Flutter will go with it too. Flutter is actually a useful framework.

Not useful enough for Google to use in most of their own cross platform apps…

https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/

The only one I can think of is Stadia... which was killed this week.

Aside from that article being quite old, the newest version of Flutter has tons of fixes for iOS. Although at the moment it's mostly used for internal apps.

So you think Google decided to reverse course again and depend on cross platform frameworks?

Facebook also realized that they had to go full native a long time ago.

You should always worry when your platform vendor doesn’t eat their own dog food. Besides Flutter will always be behind tsking advantage of the latest iOS features - especially if Google doesn’t depend on it.

This is also one of the major complaints about some of Apple’s APIs especially on the Watch. Even worse, Apple has specialized equipment that makes Watch development faster than it is on the outside.

We're using Flutter for plenty of apps internally. Just yesterday we showed off Google Classroom, which has just been rewritten using Flutter for both iOS and Android. Classroom also uses Flutter for the web-based practice sets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJF_M9bgj4

(Disclosure: I work on the Flutter team.)

My money's on Kotlin Cross platform being the viable longterm solution.

Companies that bet big on flutter are in for a world of pain when google abandons it.

You'll end up with a huge legacy codebase and dart devs that are useless for most other platforms.

I do expect there will be lots of $$$ rebuilding legacy flutter apps in SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose

300+ is still an enormous team.

The OS was never deployed on a production phone, what expectations were there?

Right now as it stands, Google has made no more use of Fuchsia than LG has with webOS. It's a washing machine operating system.

Java was literally designed for washing machines, and look how it evolved.

Java was designed for a lot of applications and branched outward. Fuchsia was designed to replace Android and is instead being used for appliances. A sector that LG, Oracle, and many other appliance manufacturers and software companies are already well invested into.

The future for this OS doesn't look very bright.