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I'm starting to love Flutter, but I'm afraid to invest in it -- Google has a history of abandoning projects they get bored with. I took a long time to come on board with Golang for the same reason...

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I'll jump to flutter once they have a convincing media player / recorder native component as well as a google map equivalent. If this has good performance on both iOS and android, with features comparable to native ones, then i don't see what can stop them.

Unless Apple starts implementing its own cross-platform sdk in swift... But judging by the slow pace at which swift is moving (compared to its "worl domination" ambitions, that is), i don't think it'll happen anytime soon.

World domination in Swift's context means iDevices OSes, outside it will be just like Objective-C has ever been.

The Google maps plugin is in active development. There was just a stub merged into flutter/plugins on GitHub

It's open source. Even if they abandon it, it doesn't go away. If it turns out to be good tech, others will maintain it.

That's the #1 reason that I don't currently consider it in the same class as React Native. Once Google showcases how they're using it in business critical apps, then I think I'll have the confidence it won't be another project that gets the axe.

They use it for the AdWords mobile app. That's pretty much as business critical as it gets for Google.

Flutter (along with Dart) is used for AdWords, which is Google's mission-critical, billion-dollar business. It doesn't get much bigger than that.

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