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Very sad article to read. I just expect the original Flutter will now die a slow death. I applaud the effort and hope they will be able to find a monetization model that works to support the development. There have been similar projects based on technologies that Microsoft has killed (Silverlight -> OpenSilver and various .NET-based cross-platform technologies) that serve their customers well. Unfortunately, none of them are in any way "mainstream" like Flutter is today.

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> There have been similar projects based on technologies that Microsoft has killed

Isn't flutter from google?

Yes, it is. I was just thinking about what happened when other companies did something similar.

Didn't Google suddenly kill GWT, which is a bit like flutter?

No, it transitioned it to others after signaling it would for well over a year, so i don't think you could call it sudden:

"In 2011 with the introduction of the Dart programming language, Google stated that GWT would continue to be supported for the foreseeable future while also hinting at a possible rapprochement between the two Google approaches to structured web programming. However, they also mentioned that several of the engineers previously working on GWT are now working on Dart.[6]

In 2012 at their annual I/O conference, Google announced that GWT would be transformed from a Google project to a fully open-sourced project.[7]

In July 2013, Google posted on its GWT blog that the transformation to an open-source project was completed.[8]"

Google funded/helped for some number of years after that.

It still is going, afaik, with gwt 2.11 being released in january, 2024.

https://www.gwtproject.org/

Yes. But the other technologies mentioned were from Microsoft.

>Very sad article to read. I just expect the original Flutter will now die a slow death.

I find it odd that you would think this fork would even have an impact on Flutter or its roadmap.

That might be the wrong way to interpret this. It actually validates interest in the framework. This change personally excited me and injects some change into the ecosystem that could result in a better future.

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