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> Still the myth allows react native and flutter to survive relevancy despite their major ergonomics and expressive inferiority, but for how long? People are u
by realusername 5y ago
> Still the myth allows react native and flutter to survive relevancy despite their major ergonomics and expressive inferiority, but for how long? People are used to experience that Electron apps are usually better and faster.
My concern with Ionic/React native isn't speed (I'm sure it's good enough), it's maintainability. I've been burned enough by the JS ecosystem to stay away from it when I can. It usually takes around 1 hour to update 6 months worth of Flutter framework & packages updates, I can't say the same about the javascript ecosystem.
On paper it looks awesome, in practice I just don't want to deal with those maintenance issues anymore.
- samwillis 5y agoI think the majority of Ionic apps have been built with Angular, which I believe has had a fairly clean upgrade path. The React and Vue binding are newer but both aren’t to hard to upgrade (ignoring the vue2-3 transition, Ionic only ever supported 3) Plus, with Ionic in contrast to the majority of JavaScript frameworks, you are using one built by a company where the framework is the core business. They have a long track record and sustainable business. They aren’t going anywhere.
- realusername 5y agoMaybe I've been a bit unfair and I should give it a go, I just had so many bad maintainability experiences in the JS world that I was just staying away from it if I can.