When the Flutter team announced they were discontinuing six first-party

packages (flutter_markdown, palette_generator, flutter_adaptive_scaffold,

flutter_image, ios_platform_images, css_colors), they left the community a

single sentence: "we encourage members of the community to coordinate on

establishing forks."

Six packages. Millions of combined downloads. And no plan.

What I did about it

I didn't set out to maintain replacements. I set out to fix my own problem —

I needed markdown rendering after flutter_markdown died. But once I shipped

one replacement and watched the issue threads fill up with "so what do we use

now?", the pattern became obvious: every discontinued package leaves behind

a large, orphaned user base with nowhere to go.

So I built the Prism family — 15 pure-Flutter packages, no platform channels,

all six platforms.…