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by halostatue 978 days ago
Flutter has a multitude of problems, at Google's inability to support anything long-term is probably the smallest.

Flutter apps don't look or work like native apps, and the only people who will put up with that are people who have to do so because their enterprise mandates it. Flutter apps have horrible battery performance. Flutter apps are always at least six months behind what is possible with native toolkits and SDKs. Flutter apps use a language that literally no one other than Sass or Flutter developers actually want to use and that offers exactly no benefit over the dozens of other possible languages out there.

Flutter is Java Swing, but worse in pretty much every way.

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This doesn't match my experience at all. It's leagues ahead of react native in memory usage, disk space, responsiveness etc.

Users are used to apps that don't look much like the out of the box platform toolkit by now. Even apple isn't very consistent about this anymore.

Native is better if course if you have the luxury of writing your app twice or three times but not many of us do.