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0 pointspzo1y ago0 comments

For ios and android maybe but I doubt for web. Also 12k+ open issues, team layoffs and all founders that left don't brink confidence to flutter. I think also roadmap and progress in last year doesn't look stellar.

On the other hand I think flutter lost a lot of benefits comparing to 5 years ago - now we have stable better swift and swiftui and better kotlin with jetpack compose - those support also apple watch, macos, tvos, visions os, Google wear, Google TV and with current jetbrains compose desktops like windows is already stable.

React native and web ecosystem also improved a lot in the last year.

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mdhb1y ago

I keep seeing this coming up and I have no idea where it’s coming from like it’s some self reinforcing feedback loop based on just utter bullshit.

If I am remembering correctly the headcount on the Futter team literally changed by a single person.

Here are some actual real life numbers you can use if you want to gauge the health of the two projects:

1. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pulse

2. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulse

Specifically Flutter’s 108 merged pull requests to React Native’s 1 and Flutter’s 330 closed issues to React Native’s 18.

Also note that this doesn’t even include their rendering engine which had another 90+ closed pull requests https://github.com/flutter/engine/pulse

The truth of the matter is that Flutter is actually is far better shape both from a technical and open source perspective.

pzoOP1y ago

I did checked pulse for those on github on regular bases. Change to monthly and notice out of 450commits more than 170 commits are by flutter-engine-autoroll bot just auto updating some packages, then next second user did ~30commits, then you have few another flutter bots with some commits. Then go compare with react native.

mdhb1y ago

You are cherry picking things here. If this is some ideological thing for you I’m really not interested in having that conversation.

The health of the two projects genuinely isn’t close at all. Comparing what they are actually both shipping in terms of features in the last year is two very very different stories.

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0 pointspzo1y ago0 comments

React native and web ecosystem also improved a lot in the last year.

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mdhb1y ago

I keep seeing this coming up and I have no idea where it’s coming from like it’s some self reinforcing feedback loop based on just utter bullshit.

If I am remembering correctly the headcount on the Futter team literally changed by a single person.

Here are some actual real life numbers you can use if you want to gauge the health of the two projects:

1. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pulse

2. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulse

Specifically Flutter’s 108 merged pull requests to React Native’s 1 and Flutter’s 330 closed issues to React Native’s 18.

Also note that this doesn’t even include their rendering engine which had another 90+ closed pull requests https://github.com/flutter/engine/pulse

The truth of the matter is that Flutter is actually is far better shape both from a technical and open source perspective.

pzoOP1y ago

mdhb1y ago

You are cherry picking things here. If this is some ideological thing for you I’m really not interested in having that conversation.

The health of the two projects genuinely isn’t close at all. Comparing what they are actually both shipping in terms of features in the last year is two very very different stories.

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