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📣 wg0

Who Designed Flutter?


I've had exposure to various UI libraries ranging from plain Win32, MFC, WindowsForms, Swing, wxWidgets and Qt.

But the DX and design of Flutter library amazes me, the flexibility and possibilities are endless with the "everything is a widget" paradigm and I have not seen anything like that before. The data classes (describing padding, margins, box decorations, border radius etc) among many other idioms once learned, feel very natural.

IMHO Flutter might have its problems NOW but I don't see it going away unless Google itself pulls the plug. There's nothing like that in the space especially if you're looking for custom look and feel.

Few questions:

Surely, it drew some inspirations from React which is a great idea in itself but what other influences are on the Flutter's UI SDK/class/architecture?

Are such things designed by a committee or a single architect or a small closely knitted group?

Would appreciate if there's some history as well.


  👤 timoteostewart Accepted Answer ✓
Flutter’s Wikipedia page has some history. See esp. footnote 7 (and keynote video at the linked page) and also the History section of the WP page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutter_%28software%29