Why tools like Flutter need to succeed
Originally posted here
Not too long ago, I had a healthy conversation with a member of our Android team about Flutter. We both arrived at the same conclusion: Flutter is made exceptional by its simple yet ambitious goal of allowing front-end engineers to build multiplatform applications that run everywhere. From different vantage points, we agreed that the scope of front-end extends beyond the web because we are all building user experiences.
I have been an engineer for about 10 years, primarily specializing in front-end web development. I have witnessed the rise and fall of a plethora of technologies on both the backend and the front-end, ranging from Java to C# to Node.js and jQuery to Angular to React. These transitions were not whimsical, they stemmed from the need to make better tools that would enable developers to write better software. Phrased another way…
Software has already made the world so much better, but it’s still insignificant to the problems that we could be solving if software was better. Since programmers are the ones that write software, it is…
