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It is both surprising and unsurprising...

Unsurprising because it's not the first time Sony bet on an unusual language (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1938652) and people on HN were similarly excited. Days later the initiative was put on hold and the domain doesn't even resolve today. I think it's safe to say that their initiative did not end up as a huge success.

Surprising because according to their own presentation they want to use an alpha version technology created by a company which is known to be cancelling projects on a whim and which is not really using said technology for anything important.

A decade later one things remains clear: you can count on HNers to jump on any obscure programming language and praise it to the skies.



Flutter's Wayland support is used by Google for a consumer product with millions of users. (source: I work for Google.)


Does that mass-market consumer product have proper accessibility support, e.g. for blind users? If so, is that somehow implemented within the Flutter UI, or parallel to it (e.g. as a separate voice interface)?


I think the parent comment was talking about Nest Hubs / Google Homes, which are arguably voice first via the Google Assistant. I can only imagine but if I had, much more significant, vision issues then I think I'd use it even more.


Which product is that? I didn't realize Flutter had a Linux dominant product already.


Not the OP, but I have heard that the google assistants with screens run Flutter.




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