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by pydry 1871 days ago
>don't cry about when some evil conglomerate rolls up in town and gets all the action.

ok but also don't cry if they drop support for it after 18 months and your app dies.

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Exactly, and with all that risk Flutter still manages to win, that's how screwed up desktop Linux has been.
It's a FOSS framework built on top a FOSS language ( Dart). Even if Google "drops support" ( as if they support Flutter or Dart), there will probably be a fork, and even if there isn't, that won't stop all the already developed and deployed apps.

Furthermore, Google is using Flutter internally and some of their apps are getting rewrites in it ( like Google Pay); it's unlikely they'll drop it.