Will Compose replace Flutter? They seem to have th...
# composes
Sam Stone
09/06/2023, 8:23 PMWill Compose replace Flutter? They seem to have the same pros, but Compose has less cons.
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eygraber
09/06/2023, 8:24 PMTry asking in r/mAndroidDev they might have a different take 😝
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Casey Brooks
09/06/2023, 8:36 PMJust my opinion, but I expect that one day (probably many years from now) Google will want to cut ties with Flutter and make Compose the single way to develop cross-platform apps. Google’s not exactly known for maintaining multiple competing projects, and Compose is much closer to the core Android platform than Flutter is so I I think that will be the one they’ll ultimately choose to keep.
However, I don’t think Flutter will be going away anytime soon. It’s still fairly new and gaining a lot of popularity, and I fully expect it to just be handed over to the community or an organization like Apache, to maintain after Google is done with it.
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Francesc
09/06/2023, 8:41 PMGoogle’s not exactly known for maintaining multiple competing projectshuh? Google are notorious for having 2 (or more) of everything. Chat apps?
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Casey Brooks
09/06/2023, 8:41 PMRight, they create multiple versions of an app, then end up killing them off and keeping the most successful one
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Francesc
09/06/2023, 8:41 PMAndroid, Fuchsia, Chrome OS, ...
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Casey Brooks
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Francesc
09/06/2023, 8:42 PMright, but on cue, before they kill Flutter, they will certainly release another framework (or two) 😄
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Casey Brooks
09/06/2023, 8:47 PMYeah, it’s not to say that Flutter isn’t successful. But they have also history of transferring large successful projects to their communities before, which continue to thrive (Kubernetes, SketchUp)
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Pablichjenkov
09/06/2023, 10:19 PMGoogle has become more of an "investor in technology company" than a "technology company" itself. They are good at spinning new projects but not maintaining it.
I also foresee a future separation of Flutter into its own organization, foundation, alliance whatever they call it.
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Sam Stone
09/07/2023, 11:29 PM@Francesc may I point out that the whole idea of fuchsia was and is meant as a research project into token based authentication, not as a profitable product.
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Pablichjenkov
09/07/2023, 11:36 PMInteresting 🤔
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Francesc
09/07/2023, 11:56 PMI was not aware of the origins of Fuchsia, but I know it's replaced the cast-OS (yet another OS) that was used in some of the Nest Home devices