My Flutter and Web Predictions 5 Years After. What Next?

Olenin Slava
Nerd For Tech
Published in
6 min readAug 13, 2024

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Back in 2019, I made a prediction that Flutter would bring revolution to the Web. And damn, I was so right about it!

Five years ago, in 2019, I wrote an article titled “Why Flutter will bring a new revolution to the WEB.” In it, I said that Flutter is the first spark in the revolution that will happen in Web development. In short, I stated the following:

  1. Flutter will be just the beginning, with others coming to the fields.
  2. More languages will be targeting WEB via WASM.
  3. Browsers will put much more effort into non-JavaScript/HTML features.
  4. You can expect more work on SEO optimization that is not tightened to HTML tags.

If you are interested in all the predictions I made, you can check my 5-year-old post, but damn, it is so tempting to say, “You see! You see! Things are exactly the way I told ya!”. Here is why:

What do we have five years after

Let’s review my predictions individually and see where we are five years later.

Flutter will be just the beginning.

As I mentioned, Flutter was the first one to target the Web. Once they nail the primary struggles, dealing with native…

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Olenin Slava
Nerd For Tech

Passionate Software Developer with a strong focus on Web, 3D, Mobile, and pretty much any interactive computer graphics.