Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference

Looks like my Lemmy-client of choice did some retrying when I had poor connection, sorry about that.

I think trying to go cheap on native apps was always kind of a fool’s errand, tbh. Cordova, Xamarin, React Native and so on - all pretty sub-par solutions leading to poor experience without actually materializing the desired savings.

Anecdotally I mostly hear that the cross-platform code doesn’t work so you end up needing to write platform specific implementations of everything anyway. But in Flutter. And it is harder to hire good talent for.

Aren’t a lot of Android apps made with Flutter?

FUCK

Google why do you do me like this

What idiot applies for a job at Google?

Someone who wants to have Google on their CV when they leave in 2 years. Generally works out.

The kind that has bills to pay dumbass

no need for immature name-calling

How is idiot not immature name calling, but dumbass is?

I spent thr last 10 minutes reading the flutter docs, and I have no fucking idea what it is, what language it is written in, or generally anything useful about it. I think we’ll be fine.

Also, Google’s contributions to Python are mostly obsolete. optparse was replaced by argparse which is .mostly replaced by click. Yapf was never successful and black has taken a commanding lead. Python will be just fine.

Flutter is a UX/UI framework for Dart programming language. Dart is a statically typed (optionally dynamic possible), completely type safe, soundly null-safe compiled programming language. It can compile to JS to run on the web, or compile to x86_64 or Arm assembly to run on hardware.

Combining Dart, which is honestly an awesome but underrated language with Flutter which is a declarative UI framework, I have found a new love for app development. It’s very pleasant.

And now I get shot in the dick with this news…

I typed in “python flutter” into Google and clicked on the first link. The first pictures shows a bit of code and a simple window with two buttons. I go back to the code and skim it. It defines the buttons. How you cannot deduce from that, that this library makes UI says a lot about you.
I also think your assumption that click replaced argparse is wrong. Click heavily relies on decorators which makes separation of functional code and command line interface code either impossible or difficult. If you only care about your one program that is fine, but it does make your code not very reusable.

Flutter has nothing to do with Python as it’s a JavaScript library, so if looks like we’re in the same boat.

If you couldn’t figure out what flutter is in 10 minutes that reflects poorly on you much more than anything else.

Flutter uses dart. It’s one of the best ui building frameworks I have used. Not that it is perfect…

Flutter - the framework - is great. Dart as a language is tolerable - lot of ugly boilerplate, manual codegen, and things you can’t quite express correctly are everywhere, but if you’re not too much of a stickler, Flutter is still worth it (at least until Compose Multiplatform matures - if ever).

I would say it’s not as good as really great languages like Rust, but it’s much nicer than Python or JavaScript. I would say it’s nicer than Typescript too. Typescript has a better type system but it’s held back by JavaScript.

Yeah totally agree. I can give it credit for being adapted for better accommodating flutter, but it has extremely many things where it does not come across as modern

I just hate reading it. I wish it looked more like Kotlin and less like JavaScript 😭

It’s the carcinisation of programming languages. Everything evolves into JavaScript.

Though let’s be real, even JavaScript evolves into Lisp.

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