Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mradek 1315 days ago
Use flutter if you’re looking to build something quick for cross platform iOS android.

Upgrading versions or dependencies isn’t a nightmare.

Dart is easy to use and a pretty good language.

Lots of community support and dependencies.

It works.

2 comments

Hard agree. I'm not a huge fan of cross-platform dev tools in general[1], but in terms of code hygiene, documentation, and "it just works" factor, Flutter is way ahead of React Native.

Admittedly it's more of a vibe than a hard metric, but a clean build of an empty React Native app for iOS has a triple-digit number of warnings in Xcode.

[1] Making a cross-platform app that's snappy and really nails the platform idioms tends to be at least as much work as making two equally-good native apps.

It's a dream if you're wanting to develop an app with webapp like functionality. Go beyond that and it just feels like a fight.