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There's probably also some reservations, because it's made by Google.
Google tends to discontinue things, which would be very bad for a UI framework.
And lots of open-source / Linux folks care about privacy, which tends to be at odds with Google. So, even just having to visit some Google website to look at the Flutter documentation, may be enough to not have people volunteering to do that.
I mean, simple mentioning Google will make some people just don't care about it. As I understand
Yeah, definitely. I'm one of those people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like, I tried to provide some rational explanation as to why people might have those reservations, but at the end of the day, it's my free time. I don't owe anyone a rational explanation why I prefer contributing to (/ writing) project X over project Y.
Google tends to discontinue things, which would be very bad for a UI framework.
cough Angular cough
The Linux mobile space is a mess in app portability, even apps in qt that in theory could work on all major platforms are a mess to port due to different frameworks / design guidelines and versions of qt... and package distribution methods.
I think Flutter is potentially a good way to write such cross-platform apps in the future, but right now it would only add to the mess I think.