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We're forking Flutter

The Flutter team has a labor shortage. We're forking Flutter so that the community can accelerate Flutter's development.

However, due to company-wide issues at Google, the Flutter team's head count was frozen circa 2023, and then earlier in 2024 we learned of a small number of layoffs. To make matters worse, Google's corporate re-focus on AI caused the Flutter team to de-prioritize all desktop platforms. Maintaining and extending a long-lived fork of Flutter requires some number of experts who direct specific areas of the project.

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