Flutter ain’t going away: Stackoverflow has spoken - Nov 2024

Since last year or so, there have been murmurs, rumours and articles from those suggesting that Flutter may be on its way out. However, StackOverflow Trends seems to disagree. While no one can predict the future, we can borrow some lessons from past trends.

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Introduction

Over the last few weeks, I have been reading articles about the future of Flutter. There is news about Google having fired some of the core Flutter team. Some bloggers have gone all the way to say that the launch of the fork project Flock is a sign of the final swan song.

I honestly do not have any inside information on what is going on with Flutter and Google. In this article, I will instead take a more data-driven approach using StackOverflow and offer suggestions about the future of the choice of technologies for mobile development.

Motivation

One of the products I am working on requires developing a relatively complex mobile app associated with a long-running product (10+ years in production) built with legacy technology. This implies a tough choice. Which new technologies to…