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> Though Flutter doesn’t use the native UI widgets, it’s a cross-platform framework and has widgets for both Android and iOS

Hot-reloading and good performance are very attractive parts of Flutter, but they really should have reconsidered the decision to make their own UI widgets. When you use the native UI elements, you get that native look-and-feel for free, and you don't have to dump man hours into replicating that behavior. They could have a "UI backend" which calls out to the native UI elements for each platform. The great thing is that since they use these UI widgets natively on Fuchsia, they can use their existing code as just another backend on that platform without having to throw the work away.