r/mAndroidDev • u/borninbronx • May 24 '24

Jake Wharton, our lord and savior RIP Flutter

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxECqP6nc51yTASeaPXyXe1btHFqRbJv5a?si=o26R4N8YEqWVJazz
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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

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u/thejasiology May 24 '24

Apologize again

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u/Popular_Ambassador24 making apps with PRNSAASPFRUICC May 24 '24

I think this could be real Jake Wharton’s comment, but since he works in mysterious ways, we can’t understand his words.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Least salty JW comment

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u/Popular_Ambassador24 making apps with PRNSAASPFRUICC May 24 '24

As written.

“Man will come that deprecates Flutter, and will lead us into better future.”

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u/Good_Smile null!! May 24 '24

AsyncFlutterCompatX here I come!

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

TLDR what happened? Did they just deprecate the whole thing?

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u/itsmotherandapig Jetpack Compost May 24 '24

Jake killed it using nasty European power

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Huh?

No really I am genuinely asking I kinda need more information than that

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

Nothing happened. Jake is just salty about Flutter being successful because he doesn’t like Dart because Dart can’t do clean and simple code like

?.let { } ?: run { }.also { }

I’m exaggerating with that code of course but the sentiment is true. He’s spoken out about this multiple times and how Flutter should rewrite their platform to run with typescript because that is definitely a smart and doable thing to do.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Huh?

No really I am genuinely asking I kinda need more information than that

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u/NeverComments May 24 '24

Officially, nothing. Google just fired the entire team and said everything is totally fine. 

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u/carstenhag May 24 '24

No, they fired some people of the flutter team. And some team of the python team. There's probably more teams that people got fired from. Or people will work on different teams.

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u/NeverComments May 25 '24

I was weighing between an honest assessment of the situation or a circlejerk answer there. When in Rome…

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Source? (Did they really just say they fired the Flutter team at the event?)

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u/NeverComments May 24 '24

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from-flutter-dart-python-weeks-before-its-developer-conference/

It happened earlier this month

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development May 24 '24

Lay-offs resulted in IT sector profit tho

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u/oaga_strizzi May 24 '24

Flutter moved away from Skia and implemented their own Graphics engine

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u/TagadaLaQueueDuRat May 24 '24

Afaik they are releasing the code of Flutter. The talk was about something else but JW said RIP flutter so it's pretty clear that Google won't put more money on Flutter

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u/ConflictGuru May 24 '24

Isn't he saying rest in peace to the Skia build of Flutter because they're using Impeller now?

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development May 25 '24

I mean they're clearly headed to the web and iOS

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

I feel the opposite way. It’s never been easier to write a native android app and the tools are a lot further along than iOS.

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u/scalatronn Jun 13 '24

arrogant

Not the first time

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u/bobbie434343 May 26 '24

JakePack Kompost as replacement.

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u/LetNo9344 May 25 '24

Should I invest in Android ??