[joezydeco]

Fellow contrarian here.

Is this a good business decision?

The slide deck could have just said "We don't want to pay $10/unit for a Qt license" and saved us all the time. If you have half a gig of SDRAM and a playstation-class CPU, awesome. A lot of us don't.

What if Google decides to give up maintenance of Flutter to the community and use an internal, better fork?

I will never touch another Google-generated embedded project again. You will get burned. Just don't do it.

[higerordermap]

> The slide deck could have just said "We don't want to pay $10/unit for a Qt license"

Qt has it's share of problems too. And someone is free to decide against depending on an oracle-like company.

> If you have half a gig of SDRAM and a playstation-class CPU, awesome.

Flutter is AOT compiled in release mode and is pretty efficient.

[malkia]

AOT maybe slower in certain cases. This topic discusses it - https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/39367 (it's not relevant only to dart, but other languages/runtimes like it too)