Why Flutter Is Too Big To Fail
3 Reasons To Not Worry About Google Killing It
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “You shouldn’t trust Google. They kill everything.” Now for most products, this is probably true. After all, there is a page with hundreds of things that Google kills.
I’m not really sure how warranted this complaint about Google is because, after all, Google also creates a lot of products. But that’s a topic for another day.
Today I’d like to talk about Flutter. Specifically why you shouldn’t worry about Google killing it.
A lot of people say, when they consider using Flutter, they are not so sure because it’s made by Google which means they’re going to kill it. Well, there are many reasons you might not want to use Flutter, but Google killing it is not one of them.
1. Open Source
So the first argument is that Flutter is open source. That means anyone can go to the official Flutter repo here, fork it, and then work on their own Fork. So Flutter can never really die.
“But what about AngularJS?” I hear you say, “AngularJS is open source and Google killed that.”
Well, yes, Google killed it and yes it was open source. But they only ‘killed’ it in the literal sense of the word. AngularJS…
