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Ultimately it’s hard to evaluate using a single simplistic app. It’s not a matter of setting up a better evaluation but rather real life. A different way to lo

by arielm 7y ago

Ultimately it’s hard to evaluate using a single simplistic app. It’s not a matter of setting up a better evaluation but rather real life. A different way to look at this is adoption, and flutter isn’t at all popular. I don’t believe that’s only a matter of visibility. React Native is the 5th and Xamarin is the 7th most used frameworks for iOS while flutter is 15th, and similarly among Android apps where it’s 10th. Source: https://appfigures.com/top-sdks/development/all https://appfigures.com/top-sdks/development/all * Requires a free account to see beyond the top 5 results. We just recently shipped an Android app built with react native and while we ran into a variety of challenges to keep the UI smooth the rest was very easy. If flutter was as easy I’d imagine it’d see more adoption.

virtualwhys 7y ago
By some measures Flutter is taking off [1], and it's Github repo has certainly drawn some interest [2]. At any rate, Flutter is far from unpopular, and is iirc the youngest of any of the competing frameworks. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11f03_rzbg,react%20native,%2Fm%2F0gtv959,%2Fg%2F1q6l_n0n0 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11f03_rzbg... [2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter https://github.com/flutter/flutter
- arielm 7y ago
  It’s really interesting to see so much interest in flutter is coming from China. But keep in mind, that’s search traffic not apps using flutter.
- hota_mazi 7y ago
  Incremental growth means nothing. It's easy to double your mind share when you start with 0.0001%. The bottom line is that Flutter has close to nonexistent adoption in the real world, not helped by the fact that Google doesn't really seem to care at all about it (at least the Android team has shown zero interest to support Flutter, which should be its death knell right there).
pjmlp 7y ago
Flutter is trying to be Dart's Rails, and that is what will ultimately kill it, as the language is useless without Flutter.

by arielm 7y ago

virtualwhys 7y ago

By some measures Flutter is taking off [1], and it's Github repo has certainly drawn some interest [2]. At any rate, Flutter is far from unpopular, and is iirc the youngest of any of the competing frameworks. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11f03_rzbg,react%20native,%2Fm%2F0gtv959,%2Fg%2F1q6l_n0n0 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11f03_rzbg... [2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter https://github.com/flutter/flutter

arielm 7y ago
It’s really interesting to see so much interest in flutter is coming from China. But keep in mind, that’s search traffic not apps using flutter.
hota_mazi 7y ago
Incremental growth means nothing. It's easy to double your mind share when you start with 0.0001%. The bottom line is that Flutter has close to nonexistent adoption in the real world, not helped by the fact that Google doesn't really seem to care at all about it (at least the Android team has shown zero interest to support Flutter, which should be its death knell right there).

pjmlp 7y ago

Flutter is trying to be Dart's Rails, and that is what will ultimately kill it, as the language is useless without Flutter.