Flutter has been forked from the official Google Git repository Repository – it is called Flock – and in my opinion this may be viewed as a Good Thing.
Customization and Flexibility
The fork may open it for more stuff that come out of the box – with the SDK. Not being under the Google hat may enable developers to customize it. Flock may become more popular if it adds new use cases and popular developer needs.
Flutter Community Engagement
The success of any technology depends on the amount of people that are using it. There is a feeling that – the Flutter Engine Developers are not able or do not want to fix issues reported by the community. At the end of the day – they are working for a big corporation. So – the community is so big that – it will pick up issues and resolve them.
Promotes Competition and Innovation
If the community resolves important issues – they may be picked up by the main branch. Source code forks allow multiple developers to work on the same project, leading to increased competition and innovation. This can result in better code quality, new features, and improved performance.
Encourages Continuous Improvement
Source code forks can lead to continuous improvement and refinement of the main project, as multiple developers work on it and contribute their own ideas and improvements. Additionally – the initiators of Flock have promised to keep up and integrate the changes from the Flutter project into the clone. Having also their own improvements may make it SUPER AWESOME.
Provides Alternative Solutions
Source code forks allow developers to create alternative solutions or implementations of a project, which can be beneficial in cases where the original implementation is not suitable for a particular use case or platform. Tha alternative approach may also use different organization. The Fork can accommodate different development styles, such as SCRUM, KANBAN, Agile – allowing developers to work on it project in a way that suits their team’s needs.
Provides a Safety Net
In Software Development there is a popular concepts of – Single Point of Failure and a Bus Factor. Flutter is not Dead. Google is famous with abondoning project – when they cannot make money out of. The presence of forks – while Google Developers still code it opens a Safety Net – ensuring Flutter will live and will remain available and usable.