--- title: Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap description: Google's recent layoffs of 200 people, including the Flutter team, has raised concerns about the future of Flutter within the Ubuntu community. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap-qywmn9e9v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap | daily.dev og:description: Google's recent layoffs of 200 people, including the Flutter team, has raised concerns about the future of Flutter within the Ubuntu community. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap-qywmn9e9v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QywMn9E9v.png og:image:alt: Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap **[omg\! ubuntu\!](https://daily.dev/sources/omgub)** · 3 min read · 47 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Google's recent layoffs of 200 people, including the Flutter team, has raised concerns about the future of Flutter within the Ubuntu community. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@devhasanalhamed** · 1 upvotes > nice article 👍🏻 **@nils** · 0 upvotes > hum... didn't see this comming. i've juste emailed to my client the beta of the first flutter desktop's app i've made ... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#flutter](https://daily.dev/tags/flutter), [#ubuntu](https://daily.dev/tags/ubuntu), [#dart](https://daily.dev/tags/dart) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap-qywmn9e9v) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap-qywmn9e9v","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap-qywmn9e9v"},"datePublished":"2024-05-07T15:49:51.211Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"Google's recent layoffs of 200 people, including the Flutter team, has raised concerns about the future of Flutter within the Ubuntu community.","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c9bf2494e1b6e642808a17b037905195?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c9bf2494e1b6e642808a17b037905195?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"omg! 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