I don’t have much to say, only that I expected flutter to be a bloated fragile abstraction on top of different native GUI APIs, but no.
It’s quite fast, relatively easy to develop and it just works.
I’m working on a desktop app that needs a high-perf rust impl, and (for now) flutter looks like a much better choice than tauri.
Just being open source doesn’t guarantee a project’s survival. If Google were to abandon it the most likely outcome would be a community fork that gets 100th of the development manpower it gets now, and most developers would abandon the platform leading to it’s effective death.
But I also think it’s unlikely Google will abandon it. It’s actually quite good and quite popular now.
That’s never stopped them before.
To put better comical effect to that line, you can add a separate hyperlink to each word of the sentence, each leading to a separate article of one of the projects abandoned by Google.
Even better if all of them were widely used ones, affirming your point.