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That literally never happened.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1cduhra/more_la...

Yes, there were layoffs. But "core maintainers" is not a term they use, and kind of fuzzy since people come and go; some early team members left well before then. People didn't all leave (or get laid off) at the same time, and they never laid off the entire team as far as I know.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1cduhra/comment...

Sure, whatever.

The one major company backing a project lays off a number of the team working on the project.

That is not exactly the signal of a bright future.

It would be cool if you could apply even the most basic reading comprehension here where it says there was zero change in team size and stop spreading nonsense.

Ok.

Here’s the top comment from the Reddit post that was linked

> Hey folks! Kevin, product manager on Flutter and Dart here.

> The layoffs were decided AT LEAST a couple of layers above our team and affected a LOT of teams. (I think I can say that). Lots of good folks got bad news and lots of great projects lost people. Flutter and Dart were not affected any more or less that others. It was a tough day...tough week.

Can you comprehend that?

Did you see the comment below the post?

> Hey folks! Kevin, product manager on Flutter and Dart here.

> The layoffs were decided AT LEAST a couple of layers above our team [...]

> Flutter and Dart were not affected any more or less that others.

That's exactly the post that confirms the layoffs and that Google moved some clueless extras to fill the gap. Which means the core maintainers were laid off. If one think that removing the main team of a project won't affect its speed and quality, one is absolutely delusional.

JFC how many times do you need to be told that what you’re claiming didn’t happen. You’ve been caught multiple times just straight up making up entire story lines that exist only in your head rather than just admitting that you had some bad information.

It’s genuinely one of the weirdest things I’ve seen on here in some time.

You seem to have issues with anger management and frustration related to people disliking Google because of how they often kill products they use. Screaming "It didn't happen" don't change thevfact that a big part of the team was laid off. Adding "headcount" doesn't change that.

Also, if you can't talk without offending and going out of your mind, you can just respect this forum guidelines and say nothing.

> a big part of the team was laid off

This didn’t happen the Flutter / Dart team specifically. You are portraying this as an issue with Flutter only.

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