It seems like Jetpack Compose is much similar to writing UI in Flutter.

yeah it does seem super weird that Google is backing both horses in that race

At the same time, it makes sense that the Android platform team would take inspiration from something else internal to Google

last I heard the teams didn't really like each other too much 🙂

We actually like the Flutter team quite a bit. We have learned a lot from them and really respect their experience. Props to Flutter team!

don't you have competing products though? (Not to say ya'll cant get along :))

Flutter isn't terrible for their API, it's terrible for their platform, ecosystem, and marketing choices

If you ever felt like writing say... a manifesto of sorts on that topic I don't think I'd be the only one reading it 😛 Flutter feels like it's now something I have defend against at companies before they flock to it as they did React Native or webviews

As you can expect from a developer team working on Android, the Jetpack Compose UI team makes different choices than the Flutter team. For example, we really want to double down on Kotlin.

but I digress. Compose is awesome! Thanks for all the hard work guys

Flutter isn't terrible for their API, it's terrible for their platform, ecosystem, and marketing choices

Ecosystem is referring to dart and I know what you mean by "marketing choices", but what do you mean by "platform"? 🤔

I guess, Dart is the "platform" 🙂

Either that or the Widget system that bypasses native widgets

Flutter widgets support material guidelines better than native widgets. Shall we call them true native widgets? 🤔

I'm blanking on the name of the Chrome draw system that it uses

I don't think it uses a Chrome draw system, I think it's using a regular OpenGL context

yeah that's the one

Compose and Flutter are actually extremely similar when it comes to rendering.