Will Compose replace Flutter? They seem to have the same pros, but Compose has less cons.

# compose

[Sam Stone]

Will Compose replace Flutter? They seem to have the same pros, but Compose has less cons.

[eygraber]

Try asking in r/mAndroidDev they might have a different take 😝

[Casey Brooks]

Just 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.

[Francesc]

Google’s not exactly known for maintaining multiple competing projects

huh? Google are notorious for having 2 (or more) of everything. Chat apps?

[Casey Brooks]

Right, they create multiple versions of an app, then end up killing them off and keeping the most successful one

[Francesc]

Android, Fuchsia, Chrome OS, ...

[Casey Brooks]

https://killedbygoogle.com/

[Francesc]

right, but on cue, before they kill Flutter, they will certainly release another framework (or two) 😄

[Casey Brooks]

Yeah, 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)

[Pablichjenkov]

Google 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.

[Sam Stone]

@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.

[Pablichjenkov]

Interesting 🤔

[Francesc]

I 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