[snodnipper]

I have been developing Android apps since the beginning, although I have cut back my time on Android largely because it is a filthy experience. How many times have we mashed the feedback button and still end up with a terrible emulator? A non-issue for iOS folks.

Flutter represents a great opportunity imho to uplift development capability and avoid needless fragmentation. It reminds me of Adobe's Flex in some ways and I can assure you that I have _never_ had such a productive client-side development environment since! Flex united developers, graphic designers, animators etc. 3 second build times...worked on everything even if the runtime was cough 'sketchy'. I'd love to see Chet Haase move onto Flutter and resume similar videos to his Adobe days.

As for all of the Kotlin noise, like much of Android this is "movement not progress" and yet another example of fragmentation. I certainly like many aspects of Kotlin _but_ Java 14 is very nice AND enables greater participation from different roles (e.g. lower barrier to entry for the Spring Boot camp). I'd love to see Google uplifting the Java / JVM community and support modern Java syntax on Android.

As for Google building a better SDK, clearly the Android and Flutter teams do not see eye to eye...but maybe there will be lessons learned for both. I will be keeping an eye on Fuchsia with respect to developer tooling.