[rauchp]

React Native and (arguably) Flutter are going through a golden age right now. Major companies like Tesla, Coinbase, and Shopify have adopted them, and the developer experience has never been better. I'm not sure why it worked now, but didn't work for Xamarin / Ionic, though.

[tluyben2]

For Xamarin I would answer that with: Flutter and React native are 'light' on the developer: you get instant feedback. Xamarin, at least when we dropped it 2 years ago, was really slow and, besides c# which we will use on the server, hardly pleasant or light. I think these days, the developer needs a smooth experience (once the tons of crap has been installed and set up, which is why I prefer Flutter over react native) so things that are not that will fall over. I think, after that, comes author influence: so if you take that, you get to RN, Flutter, Xamarin, Ionic if you sort them by EasyOfDev,AuthorInfluence.

[failwhaleshark]

Popularity means popularity. It doesn't mean utility. There are plenty of dumb things large companies use. OTOH, there are also many unsexy, little-known, ubiquitous technologies essential to certain sectors of the economy.