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by shubham_sinha 2365 days ago
X vs Y thing is always fun to read. We would all agree that Native apps are still better than RN and Flutter ones. So choosing either platform is a decision you need to take whether you want something fast and compromise on few thinks like look and performance or you want something solid. Secondly the issue with flutter is Dart. If you're a startup with 3 guys, working on Go lang for backend APIs, React / Svelte for frontend would you rather choose Js / TS for your app development or Dart. The whole time taken to build X using Y goes for a toss here. I would rather keep minimum moving parts if I'm small. If you're an enterprise and you've got resources you can experiment with Flutter + Dart, work for 2 years and when the project gets shelved ( just like other Google projects ) start migrating to Native or Js. After that you'll question yourself why did I learn Dart in the first place ? Did Flutter provide enough features that React Native didn't, etc.
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dcow 2365 days ago
Flutter isn’t going to get shelved. It is the UI framework for Fuchsia. I agree Dart is its biggest problem but Fuchsia prides itself on not having a single system language so I’m sure you’ll be able to target the flutter framework from kotlin and swift and rust and go soon. Also Dart isn’t hard.
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novok 2365 days ago
TBH skimming the dart language, the only thing that was holding me back was the lack of optional types, and with dart 2.7 it looks like they've added it:

https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-2-7-a3710ec54e97

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pjmlp 2365 days ago
Fuchsia's future is still uncertain, and nowadays they also have C++ and Rust based UIs on the public repo.
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throwno 2365 days ago
Flutter is just a cheap Google copy of React just like now shelved Google Plus was a cheap Google copy of LinkedIn/Facebook. It can and will be discontinued.
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dcow 2365 days ago
It’s not cheap at all. It does things the right way. It’s the closest thing UI engineers have to a “write once”, deploy everywhere framework. Try it out if you haven’t. It’s definitely not cheap.
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Supermancho 2365 days ago
> Flutter isn’t going to get shelved.

That confident endorsement of future Flutter support is borderline misinformation.

Alphabet literally voted on shelving GCP ("the cloud business") a short time ago; https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/17/google-reportedly-wants-to-b...

Dropping public Flutter support is a higher probability event.

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