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Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by bushbaba on Saturday April 27, 2024 @08:40PM (#40184914)
Not surprised. Flutter similar to many Google iniatives have no to minimal revenue tie in. This applies as well to grpc, bazel, beam, dart, fuschia, golang, gerrit.

Personally I would not use any open source project that has less than 40% of the active contributions from non Google parties.

Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by alrs on Saturday April 27, 2024 @09:04PM (#40185062)
I think Go is unique in this list in that the only other language that fills the same niche is Java, and Google can't afford to let the licensing whims of Oracle decide its fate.

That said, I'm actively rooting for the demise of some of the others.

Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by Ancalagon on Saturday April 27, 2024 @10:14PM (#40185435)
Wow losing support for Golang is a scary thought I hadn’t considered until now.
Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by dinvlad on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:45PM (#40191243)
I'm waiting nervously in anticipation.. But I wouldn't be surprised tbh
Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by neonsunset on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:52PM (#40191292)
Another option is C#, it keeps getting active development, is the closest[0] in performance to pure unmanaged tier of languages and has tooling similar to Rust's cargo, isn't being abandoned any time soon (it's a core dependency of msft and seems to be increasing in amounts of promotion (finally!)), and has other industry players also working on it (like Unity).

[0] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by eloisant on Sunday April 28, 2024 @05:08PM (#40191942)
Golang is popular enough that development would continue even without Google. Could be a fork with a different name if needed, but it's not going anywhere.

Too many companies are relying on it.

Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by itsjzt on Saturday April 27, 2024 @09:54PM (#40185342)
Kotlin is always an option and it also interpolates well with Java.
Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by dinvlad on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:44PM (#40191235)
Kotlin is also at the whim of one company (JetBrains), unfortunately..
Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by reindeerer on Monday April 29, 2024 @01:10AM (#40194684)
They are so entrenched on gerrit, it's so uniquely terrible. Should have bought Gitlab when there was the moment
Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team by NoahKAndrews on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:11PM (#40204183)
Gerrit's model is pretty interesting