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The talent pool is non-existent. You’d be crazy to use tech in your stack that you can’t find people for. At least with RN, there are thousands of React devs o

• fakedang 3y ago
  You don't hire for the tech stack though. Flutter has a much faster learning curve than RN, evidenced by its growing popularity among beginners. In my experience, it's not going to be hard for a React developer to pick up Dart or Flutter than it is the other way round - in fact, there are blog articles by eBay and BMW, where their tech teams easily learnt flutter and deployed production apps within a week. Of course, most companies hiring mobile devs do it wrong. Flutter hasn't been around long enough the same way React has, so years of experience is a meaningless metric here.
  • akmarinov 3y ago
    Have to disagree. Yes, every experienced dev can probably pick up any other language/framework and be able to work with it within 6 months - things aren’t fundamentally that different. But these people can easily switch jobs and it’s doubtful most are ok to hitch their wagon to Flutter - a nascent framework with basically no crossover to web development and a big company behind it, known for killing its toys on a whim. Much easier to just go do RN elsewhere.
• realusername 3y ago
  The learning curve is very low though, especially for JS/React developers. Flutter did not come from nowhere, Dart is heavily inspired by Javascript and the rendering model is close to React. The issue will rather be that they won't want to work on it due to their career than the pure tech capabilities.