Well, there are certain advantages to sticking with a truly community-based frameworks like #GTK.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/googles-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap

#Google #Flutter #Linux #desktop

Google's Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap - OMG! Ubuntu

Google's recent 'structural simplification' led to 200 people across many of its core development teams, including Python, Dart, and Flutter, losing their

OMG! Ubuntu
@sesivany hard not to feel schadenfreude here 😅

@sesivany

Isn't this just the normal Ubuntu modus operandi?

I mean ... it's not the first time Ubuntu has spent efforts on chasing the wrong horses and ending up coming back to sanity later on ...

Mir/Wayland, Unity/GNOME, etc, etc ...

@sesivany is this a dig at Qt / KDE? the recent round of corporate FOSS enshittification does make me nervous...
@Tactician_mark the post was not meant to attack Qt/KDE. I know that Qt has had the problem of relying on one vendor, but the KDE and open source Qt community is so large that they'd probably be able to fork and maintain Qt themselves to some degree if the relationship went south. I don't think it's the case for Flutter.