I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter
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#2As the comments on the post say - it's most likely due to the generally slow job market. 3.5 years later I'm still glad that I chose to use Flutter in my business.
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#4You could say this about any Google technology.
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#5Dart is my biggest issue with Flutter. It's still missing ergonomic features like data classes and lower level things like unsigned 64-bit integers. There is no runtime reflection, which I think is a good thing for end user apps, but it's also missing static metaprogramming. And code generation is not integrated into a complier. Since, there is no runtime reflection, metaprogramming & integrated code-gen are sorely needed.
Flutter itself is slowly reaching maturity on mobile and is already quite good, if you can live with a few compromises.
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#6You could say this about any Google technology.
I know right? Just like Golang, Kubernetes, Chrome APIs, etc /s
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#7Well that's why you should always keep tabs on what's in demand and switch stacks if necessary.
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#8Are mobile stacks so specialised that it's difficult to switch between them?
Out of curiosity, how long would it take a flutter dev to become productive in some other stack?
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#9Obviously I feel the pain of the OP but I think he blames the wrong thing.
Flutter is a ( viable ) technology that’s being growing for the last few years. A very significant percentage of new mobile apps are programmed with it these days.
It seems his problems have everything to do with the local job market and not the technology. With the added bonus that you can be a single man operation and release your own apps for both iOS, Android and the desktops.
I’m not a fanboy and even less of Google but Flutter really offers the ability to make lemonade if the job market gives you lemons.
Re: I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter
#10Are mobile stacks so specialised that it's difficult to switch between them? Out of curiosity, how long would it take a flutter dev to become productive in some other stack?
They are not, but HR / hiring managers are keyword based and won’t entertain the idea of hiring someone with the wrong experience. See also: https://versastudio.com/blog/if-carpenters-were-hired-like-p...