https://edit.theappbusiness.com/flutter-the-skys-the-limit-84887c8f650d

Some of you probably get the pun already. The Flutter project was initially known as the Sky Engine. If you look closely into the project’s GitHub repo you may find the very first commit by Adam Barth:

commit 00882d626a478a3ce391b736234a768b762c853aAuthor: Adam Barth Date: Thu Oct 23 11:15:41 2014 -0700Open the SkyA humble beginningFlutter started as an attempt to move forward or more precisely fast-forward the evolution of the web. When I heard about it for the first time in 2014, it was only a very enigmatic prototype of the engine allowing hot reload of the executable on an Android phone. After that, I didn’t hear much about it. The project just vanished from my radar.