#Google’s #flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap
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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 the #News of layoffs in the team responsible for building the framework has left some in the wider Ubuntu community worried about its future viability. The new Ubuntu Installer, Firmware Updater, App Center, and the (currently MIA) Desktop Security Center are all built using Flutter, which is Google’s cross-platform Web-based UI framework underpinned by the Dart programming language. And within the Ubuntu Flutter community a number […] You’re reading Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere (...)