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by DeusExMachina 1648 days ago
> It’s not surprising that more are preferring to use Electron, React Native, or Flutter

Do you have any data to back that up. As an iOS developer, that is not my experience at all.
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mhoad 1648 days ago
Offering these two data points for the Flutter side of things at least.

The first is Google trends results for Flutter vs Swift globally in the last year.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F010sd4y3,%...

Along with StackOverflow’s 2021 report that shows Dart is more popular than Swift.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021

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DeusExMachina 1647 days ago
These things are not comparable.

Flutter and Dart are used on a plethora of platforms, including Android which has a far larger market share than iOS alone, and Windows, which takes the cake on the desktop.

Swift is used only on Apple platforms, and mostly for iOS. The use of Swift on macOS, watchOS or server-side development is negligible.

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Redoubts 1647 days ago
> shows Dart is more popular than Swift.

that... seems obviously wrong.

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