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Discussion on: React Native Vs Flutter For Cross-Platform Development In 2020

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Juan C. Andreu

Very interesting take on this, but I disagree in a lot of your points.

  • Flutter does not uses native components, but instead renders them using Skia, so it's technically a game!
  • Just saying that JS is better than dart because it's widely used, is not a valid point. You are comparing languages not learning curve.
  • " Hardware-Specific APIs " You did not evaluate APIs but difference in amount of libraries.
  • Currently Flutter has more stars than React Native. I have been able to write 4 enterprise flutter apps and with the current amount of community, docs, etc it's been an easy task.
  • "Since Dart is newer and less popular than JavaScript, it has worse IDE support." IDE support for dart is impressive, compiling times are low, and hot reload is the fastest out there.

And to add tot his, as empirical evidence, every time i tried to set up a react native project , i spent a lot of time just getting things to work. Flutter workflow is just better.

Other than that, very interesting article, and I liked your point of view.