I'm really interested in learning Flutter for future app development as I could really use the time saved in development. But, one thing which really concerns me is the volatility of Google w.r.t products which doesn't get enough adoption i.e. in other words 'I'm afraid Google will kill Flutter'.
I know this happened with Angular 1, but I am curious why I never hear this sentiment for GoLang which people seem nuts for. Is it because Google is responsible for maintaining the actual UI Widgets in this case?
I use GoLang regularly and so consider this my personal opinion for your question;
•GoLang filled up a need gap of simple yet high performant server side language which could scale up with the developments in the compute power.
•By the time GoLang stable release was made, it was widely used by Google itself within its production infrastructure. Docker, Kubernetes, Youtube using Go was a huge confidence booster.
•Of course it's been a decade since release, so it has stood the test of time even though there are criticisms regarding language design and Google's oversight on language development; even though major development comes from Google, I don't think there is a chance that they will pull it off just because they are heavily invested in it.
As for Flutter,
• It's been just two years, so we cannot compare it directly with current GoLang reg adoption and also this is a framework. I think Flutter didn't really fill any need gap Google had, it just seems like they waited to see if Cross-platform app development would still be a thing by the end of the decade and rushed in with a framework to compete with Xamarin/React Native.
• Google already has two first level language support for its android development Java, Kotlin but Flutter requires one to use Dart which wasn't originally created to be used in such a framework. So both android and iOS developers need to learn another language to build cross-platform apps using Flutter.
• Google claims it uses Flutter for some part of Google Assistant for Google Home devices and it is expected that Fuchsia uses Flutter as primary development framework; that's all in the future, if Google wants to inspire confidence they need to release a major app written using Flutter for android/iOS.
In short, I don't see Google loosing much in stopping development on Flutter as much as it stands to loose if stops development on GoLang and lately that's how Google has treated its projects. Of-course both are open-source, may be if Google stopped development on Flutter, the UI-widgets can still be developed by the community but I doubt whether the core-framework can be developed by just the community.
The sad but true reason is because people aren't generally making rational decisions on here. They'll claim a reason, but it's usually really based on pre-conceived notions. "Google kills projects so I won't use Flutter, but will definitely go all in on GoLang" is a great example of this.
