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We're forking Flutter

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Re: We're forking Flutter

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Post by mdhb »

plorkyeran wrote: post #21

> That's 50 people serving the needs of 1,000,000. Doing a little bit of division, that means that every single member of the Flutter team is responsible for the needs of 20,000 Flutter developers! That ratio is clearly unworkable for any semblance of customer support. If "only" 50 people working on a project used by one million people was unworkably low then every single successful project out there would be doomed.…

Yeah, the person primarily behind this is a bit of an oddball in my experience who had a somewhat contentious relationship with the team which he himself was once a part of and it’s not clear if he left or was asked to leave.

But reading that post I couldn’t help but shake the feeling that there might be other non disclosed reasons for the fork because some of the ones he did give as you pointed out didn’t make a lot of sense to me either.

Re: We're forking Flutter

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Post by throwaway19972 »

concerndc1tizen wrote: post #36
throwaway19972 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better than using a distinct name for a mostly-identical project or effort (looking at you, MariaDB).

"MariaDB is named after Widenius' younger daughter, Maria. (MySQL is named after his other daughter, My.)" (Wikipedia)

(No insult intended to Maria or Michael, it's a lovely name in itself.)

Re: We're forking Flutter

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Post by JavierFlores09 »

ko27 wrote: post #74
normie3000 wrote: post #19

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> Flutter is truly a piece of great tech with remarkable quality and value. How does it compare to React Native from user and developer experience perspectives? Are there other competitors?

It's better in most ways, for example, just recently LG decided to rewrite its TV apps from RN to Flutter https://webostv.developer.lge.com/news/2024-07-15-new-and-su... > Most of our apps use React. When we first adopted React, we were pleased with the development productivity it provided, but sadly its initial performance was subpar in terms of start-up time, memory consumption, and responsiveness. After significan…

I wonder how it compares now with the latest version of RN that brings out a lot of performance gains induced by the removal of their native bridge, and also faster startup by making lazy loading of modules the default option

Re: We're forking Flutter

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Post by giancarlostoro »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #98
giancarlostoro wrote: post #70

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WhatsApp had less than 50 engineers (or was it employees total?) when Facebook bought them out, and they had millions of users.

WhatsApp has a very narrow use case and feature set to support. Flutter is a multi-platform framework for developing apps like WhatsApp. It seems like a apples and oranges here.

I'm comparing the impact. Small tens of developers, affecting millions of people.

Re: We're forking Flutter

#108

Post by macspoofing »

I'm confused .. is this a Google-led fork? Is "Flutter Foundation" a google sponsored foundation? If not, why use "Flutter" trademark? Also, if the fork is called "Flock", why is this called a "Flutter Foundation"?
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