[satvikpendem]

They should've tried Flutter, which is what I primarily use for building apps, and it's hard to find a competitor that's as "write once, run everywhere," as Flutter. Only Dioxus with their native renderer might come close, but that's years away from being at a Flutter-level production capacity.

[dfee]

i worry about Dioxus. not because "they're going to be destroyed by their VC funding" directly, but indirectly. is this a sustainable endeavor? does the market really want them or care about them? it's hard to consider and commit to them, when it's unclear if they're sustainable or just running on the fumes of a passionate founder three months away from marking the project as unmaintained and walking away.

to that end, while i find beauty in dioxus, i've been more willy to play with expo.

[jtesp]

it's a bet for sure. but if you squint or zoom out, you can see that dioxus labs is creating a whole new land of possibilities with blitz, taffy and their rust hot-reload. nothing is more motivating to a founder than adoption so i think developers should look at the big picture and contribute more to help speed things up. a big blocker for me was video in blitz but i solved it myself. ultimately it's up to developers to take a risk and give dioxus some credible case studies. flutter really dropped the ball on web and dioxus has a huge opportunity on the line. hopefully people will give it a real shot to help build some momentum. they are miles ahead in a lot of ways simply due to the vastly available rust crates

[satvikpendem]

That's what happened to Darklang, if I recall correctly. I've been hearing about it for almost 10 years now and they went through multiple language rewrites and ultimately went bankrupt and then open source. Turns out it's hard to make money in languages and tooling.

[spacecadet]

Flutter turned out surprisingly useful.