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Re:We're forking Flutter by lysace on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:07PM (#41975625)
Yes. Off by at least a magnitude.
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Re:We're forking Flutter by Barrin92 on Monday October 28, 2024 @07:00PM (#41977471)
>working on this experimental Google Tech

while I'd agree with you that 1 million is too high, Flutter certainly is not experimental Google tech. It's widely used in particular internationally. I talked to a ByteDance guy two or three years ago and I think they alone had about 1k Flutter engineers. Nubank, Alibaba, BMW, Ebay use it extensively.

Flawed metric but eyeballing VScode Extension installs, Python 140m, c# 30 mil, Go 15 mil, Flutter 10 mil. It is very, very popular.

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Re:We're forking Flutter by lysace on Monday October 28, 2024 @07:08PM (#41977537)
100k seems more reasonable.
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Re:We're forking Flutter by kllrnohj on Monday October 28, 2024 @08:11PM (#41977995)
Flutter has more usage among professional devs than React Native does per stackoverflow survey https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t... and statista has similar-enough numbers: https://www.statista.com/statistics/869224/worldwide-softwar...

Seeing as React Native has somewhere around 1 million active developers, Flutter almost certainly does as well.

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