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by pier25 2756 days ago
I tried RN in early 2016 but Android support and documentation were not great.

Honestly, I've always thought that RN (and similar approaches) is kinda a hack. Yes, it solves a problem of reducing developer time across platforms, but it introduces other more obscure problems. A JavaScript engine with it's own set of problems giving orders through some bridge to the native part... I don't know, it's a lot of moving pieces.

I feel Flutter is so much more solid in this respect. The approach has been used countless times by game engines such as Unity, UE, etc. The part where Google has to replicate the UI elements of each platform is not amazing, but otherwise I feel it's a much more solid approach than RN.

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I got a similar impression from ReactNative: it felt like a hack, and the hack came apart at the seams if you tried to debug it.

Similarly, Flutter felt much more like a cohesive solution compared to RN.