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Re:We're forking Flutter by lopatin on Monday October 28, 2024 @07:49PM (#41977838)
> we do not want, or intend, to fork the Flutter community.

I can't reconcile that statement with the rest of the blog post. Good intentions aside, this is exactly what they are on the path to doing.

From the post:

> By forking Flutter, we get to decide what gets merged.

I'll allow myself to be naively blunt since I just learned of this and I don't have a stake in this battle, but it seems like a nice little coup attempt that Google can squash by putting more resources into Flutter if they feel the pressure.

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Re:We're forking Flutter by kevincox on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:45AM (#41982345)
> can squash by putting more resources into Flutter

So success?

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Re:We're forking Flutter by augusto-moura on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @07:14PM (#41990414)
This reminds me of io.js, which started as a fork of NodeJS but was eventually merged back upstream
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Re:We're forking Flutter by okwhateverdude on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @09:40AM (#41983747)
> nice little coup attempt that Google can squash

I mean, Google could also punt and let Flutter die. They've killed greater investments for less.

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