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Every language is "popular" with the niche of hardcore supporters who really really like it. Actually-popular languages are the ones who can go beyond that nich
by toyg 4y ago
Every language is "popular" with the niche of hardcore supporters who really really like it. Actually-popular languages are the ones who can go beyond that niche and attract large numbers of developers.
Dart is not one of those languages. Dart is just not popular.
- okamiueru 4y agoI agree about the different ways to interpret what popular/unpopular means. But, "app development" is not really a niche. And having almost 50% market share of cross platform frameworks in that market, and growing, is also no small piece either.
- toyg 4y agoLet me introduce you to this thing called Rails, used to be pretty hot...
- marcellus23 4y ago> And having almost 50% market share of cross platform frameworks in that market Is this really true? I've encountered very few Flutter apps as an iOS user — actually I can't think of any that I haven't intentionally downloaded to see what Flutter is like.
- okamiueru 4y agoA quick search does give some results to back me up: - https://www.statista.com/statistics/869224/worldwide-software-developer-working-hours/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/869224/worldwide-softwar... Combined with: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%2Creact-native https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%2Crea... Given that the first one was limited at 2021, I would be surprised it isn't around 60%. And, having used react-native and done extensive eval on it, flutter is by far the better architectural approach, so I expect this trend to continue (unless google cans the project that is :P). IMHO, the only reason to ever pick react-native over flutter is if you already have JS developers.
- marcellus23 4y agoThanks for the links!