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Comment by andrekandre | Hacker News Reader

what is up with all of these flutter articles on medium recently proclaiming that flutter is the second coming of app dev tools or something... almost like it was some kind of social media strategy...

personally i find flutter interesting, but i don’t like that, hot reloading is for ui only, and the “pyramid of doom” style inline coding isn’t my cup of tea...

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Seems like an organized PR campaign, hidden behind developer blog posts.

I was recently replying to a similar thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629385

I wish these tactics of subliminal agenda pushes, would stop already.

https://chasegage.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/american-politics...

There's no conspiracy. Flutter is new, it's from Google and it's growing fast. Hence people are trying it out and blogging about it. Others are intrigued and reading the blogs and liking it. That's it.

If anything, astroturfing in tech blogs is probably less likely to be corporate funded, and more to be the sort of breathless SEO self-promotion from savvy self-marketers. Content creators on Medium, YouTube, Quora will latch onto any new tech in order to drive views, regardless of what tech it is.

As one get older, you seems to remember all these pitch for "Flutter" were exactly the same <insert X>.

And given Google's extremely good track record on their product / services / and tools. I think I will take a pass for now.

Probably someone at google decided that fb gains too much influence over developers minds via Reac/ReactNative so they decided to make their own flavor and now they are just pumping some serious money into marketing.

Probably because Flutter releases 1.0 last week so you’re seeing some folks writing about it now that it’s production ready and some additional articles by the folks waiting for the weekend to write about it.

Yeah, I am also noticing the same trend. A heavy push for flutter everywhere. It makes me wary, curious to try it but however to take it with a grain of salt.

Ikr

>Flutter will enable full cross-platform development across iOS, Android, desktop, web and beyond with one codebase.

I’ve seen desktop development mentioned a lot as well and was pretty excited, but right now it does not seem to support shortcuts, tabbing, drag and drop, multiple windows etc. Still, could be a very different story a year from now if Flutter starts to gather market share.

This is Google's last attempt at getting it's failed Dart language into the mainstream. I would not be surprised if they were actively coordinating this considering how hard they are pushing on YouTube.

hot reload is not just for UI

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