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It's because Google let go the Flutter team and now everyone's afraid to touch it because of long term maintenance. I personally strongly prefer Flutter over Re
by muzani 2y ago
It's because Google let go the Flutter team and now everyone's afraid to touch it because of long term maintenance. I personally strongly prefer Flutter over React Native. And with Cursor being fully compatible with Flutter, I'd expect it to be a secret weapon where you can just build web + mobile prototypes of anything within days.
But the teams that hire either Flutter or RN tend to not appreciate front end as much. I've been pressured to pick up RN for a while but it turns up negative.
React is a safe framework to pick up. If you're worried about employment, go for it.
Native Android has very similar functionality to Flutter and I think the Flutter devs are moving to Android. If you know Flutter, you already know Jetpack Compose. Android tends to pay very well because it's more of a niche but it's also rare. Since the Crowdstrike incident, Android has become the default operating system for hardware like car radios, those credit card machines, point of sales.
iOS is also interesting because it's half the market share, pays a little more, and AI just sucks at it. There's a bunch of things in Swift that you can't do with Kotlin. Swift is also something the standard LLMs can't do today so there's some job security. And by the time LLMs catch up to the average iOS dev, you could have the kind of mastery level to keep the job.