Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap

Google’s recent ‘structural simplification’ led to 200 people across many of its core development teams, including Python, Dart, and Flutter, losing their roles. With Canonical committed to using Flutter for its own desktop apps that news has left some in the Ubuntu community worried. The new Ubuntu Installer, Firmware Updater, App Center, and the (currently MIA) Desktop Security Center are all built in Flutter, which is Google’s cross-platform Web-based UI framework underpinned by the Dart programming language. And within the wider Ubuntu Flutter community a handful of devs are creating third-party apps using it, with music/radio/podcast/video player MusicPod the best
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