Eric Seidel (@_eseidel) / X

Eric Seidel

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Eric Seidel

@_eseidel

Leading @shorebirddev. 🚀 Founded @flutterdev, former Eng. Dir @google, previously @googlechrome, @webkit. @ycombinator S06.

Menlo Park, CA

Joined January 2007

Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Sep 2, 2022
For the first time in nearly 15 years 😲(since before Obama was president or the iPad existed🤯), eseidel@google no longer reaches me. Thanks to all, especially Flutter and Chrome teams and communities for making it special. 🫂 Retiring briefly, then who knows?🤷‍♂️ Onward. 🚀
Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Aug 17, 2023
I only learned Dart could do this yesterday. You can declare a non-nullable final variable right before a try block and it will allow you to assign it in the try (and error if you don't).
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Dec 11, 2022
When we said Flutter runs anywhere. We weren’t kidding. 🚀
Roman Jaquez
@drcoderz
Dec 10, 2022
Running #Flutter apps on flexible and "unconventional" displays - possibilities are endless 💪 Thanks @devangelslondon for the inspiration 🙏💙 @FlutterDev @GoogleDevExpert
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
May 7, 2025
In case you like games and Flutter: 😁 rockstargames.com/careers/openin…
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Jul 18, 2024
In honor of Flutter's 10 year birthday this year, I'm digging through old photos. 📸 Here's swag from Flutter's first I/O. 🤣
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Jun 12, 2024
There. I fixed it for you, Apple. 🤷
Rudrank Riyam
@rudrank
Jun 10, 2024
👀
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Mar 1, 2023
Who's hiring for Flutter? I've seen 10s of great candidates pass through my inbox these last weeks (more than I can hire) and surprised we as an ecosystem aren't connecting awesome people to awesome jobs as well as we could. Where should I be pointing folks to? 🤔
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
May 30, 2021
With us both vaccinated 💉💉🎉 I was lucky enough to see @timsneath in person for the first time in over a year tonight. We had a little #flutterdev reunion and even brought a Dash along for the occasion. 🎉 So glad there is light at the end of this crazy isolation tunnel. 😷
Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Apr 8, 2024
1.0 is here! 🥳🎉🪩🍾 Thank you to the thousands of developers who’ve tested @shorebirddev in the last year, we couldn’t have done it without you. 🙏
Shorebird
@shorebirddev
Apr 8, 2024
Shorebird is 1.0! 🎉🎉🎉 Fix bugs instantly in your Flutter apps on Android and iOS! 🩹 shorebird.dev/blogs/1.0/
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Mar 28, 2024
😮‍💨 We've been working on making @shorebirddev awesome for iOS for almost 9 months now. But we're finally there! We'll probably release one more beta this week and then 1.0 next week. 🤞 It turns out building a new compiler/linker toolchain for Dart is hard. 🤣
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Feb 23, 2024
We wrote *three* versions of Flutter in JavaScript before moving to Dart. 😭 AOT was the biggest reason to move. Before AOT we had *12 second* startup times on iOS. Doesn't at all surprise me that we will eventually see more Dart on the server taking advantage of the same. 🚀
Slava Egorov
@mraleph
Feb 23, 2024
that's some nice Dart on the Server benchmarking barfoos.com/blog/dart_java…
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
May 17, 2024
What’s the largest open source app using Flutter?
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Aug 28, 2025
Replying to @RenwaX23
I'm pretty sure this was also reported over 15 years ago, back when I worked on Safari's cursor support. :) But thanks for the report all the same!
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Eric Seidel
@_eseidel
Jan 7, 2023
Would love to chat with folks about pains they've had using #Flutter. Things you'd wish someone else built for you? I hope to solve some of them in the coming years. :)
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