Flutter Forked Into Flock

FLOCK We're forking Flutter. This is why. Matt Carroll • October 27, 2024 Over the years, Flutter has attracted millions of developers who built user interfaces across every platform. Flutter began as a UI toolkit for mobile - iOS and Android, only. Then Flutter added support for web. Finally, Flutter expanded to Mac, Windows, and Linux. Across this massive expansion of scope and responsibility, the Flutter team has only marginally increased its size. To help expand Flutter's available labor, and accelerate development, we're creating a fork of Flutter, called Flock.

A dark screenshot of a Flock article announcing that the Flutter project is being forked because its scope has expanded faster than its team. The joke is the playful name “Flock,” paired with the small bird-like logo, turning a serious software-development announcement into a bird pun. It can be sent as a reaction to complicated open-source projects, team overload, or unexpectedly dramatic technical reorganizations.

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