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>Since Flutter is newer and uses a less popular language there's many more questions about Flutter. This is totally expected. It's more complicated than your p

by jasode 5y ago

>Since Flutter is newer and uses a less popular language there's many more questions about Flutter. This is totally expected. It's more complicated than your proposed cause & effect. A counterexample is that Rust is much newer than C++ and yet C++ still has higher volume of questions using Stackoverflow's trending tool: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=rust%2Cc%2B%2B https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=rust%2Cc%2B%2... This matches real world observation that C++ is still more popular and widely used than Rust. I don't have the raw data but I'm guessing that even if Stackoverflow compared Flutter-vs-ReactNative # search queries instead of # of questions, Flutter would still have a higher count. Another article highlighting Google Trends[1] shows that Flutter surpassed React Native around 2020: https://www.nomtek.com/blog/flutter-vs-react-native https://www.nomtek.com/blog/flutter-vs-react-native [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-02%202022-01-02&q=%2Fg%2F11h03gfxy9,%2Fg%2F11f03_rzbg https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-02%202...

anthropodie 5y ago
Another metric could be activity on their respective subreddits. Here is subscriber count: Flutter: 87K, Initial Release: Mar-2015 React native 88K, Initial Release: May-2017 I think growth rate of Flutter is higher than React.
- cute_boi 5y ago
  I think you got date incorrect?
  - anthropodie 5y ago
    Yeah it should be reverse and now I can't edit it.
- kumarvvr 5y ago
  Sorry, the two year lead that Flutter has, and still being close to React Native in terms of subscribers implies React Native was picked up quicker or is more popular. However, I do agree that RN has the momentum and familiarity of React as tailwinds.
  - anthropodie 5y ago
    The dates are reverse. React is older than Flutter.
can16358p 5y ago
It's normal that Flutter is growing faster than React Native. It's newer, has a less-known language, learning React Native is very easy for existing React developers so less searches for how-tos. It still doesn't reflect reality.

by jasode 5y ago

anthropodie 5y ago

Another metric could be activity on their respective subreddits. Here is subscriber count: Flutter: 87K, Initial Release: Mar-2015 React native 88K, Initial Release: May-2017 I think growth rate of Flutter is higher than React.

cute_boi 5y ago
I think you got date incorrect?
- anthropodie 5y ago
  Yeah it should be reverse and now I can't edit it.
kumarvvr 5y ago
Sorry, the two year lead that Flutter has, and still being close to React Native in terms of subscribers implies React Native was picked up quicker or is more popular. However, I do agree that RN has the momentum and familiarity of React as tailwinds.
- anthropodie 5y ago
  The dates are reverse. React is older than Flutter.

can16358p 5y ago

It's normal that Flutter is growing faster than React Native. It's newer, has a less-known language, learning React Native is very easy for existing React developers so less searches for how-tos. It still doesn't reflect reality.