On: We're forking Flutter

[lopatin]

> we do not want, or intend, to fork the Flutter community.

I can't reconcile that statement with the rest of the blog post. Good intentions aside, this is exactly what they are on the path to doing.

From the post:

> By forking Flutter, we get to decide what gets merged.

I'll allow myself to be naively blunt since I just learned of this and I don't have a stake in this battle, but it seems like a nice little coup attempt that Google can squash by putting more resources into Flutter if they feel the pressure.

[okwhateverdude → lopatin]

> nice little coup attempt that Google can squash

I mean, Google could also punt and let Flutter die. They've killed greater investments for less.

[kevincox → lopatin]

> can squash by putting more resources into Flutter

So success?

[augusto-moura → kevincox]

This reminds me of io.js, which started as a fork of NodeJS but was eventually merged back upstream