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Flutter and KMM are actually very good and better to use than the debacle that React Native can be. But they’re worlds behind in community support, and React Native became the ‘kitchen sink’ that works for most needs.

As a React Native developer for, what, 6 years, I don’t have much positivity left to offer. Bug reports to the core team that went nowhere, the Android crash on remote images without dimensions, all the work offloaded to Expo, etc.

Google couldn’t really done better, maybe Flutter should’ve become independent after the initial release.

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no_wizard2mo ago

The problem Flutter has is highly highly dependent on Google, from funding to development.

That it is also the only real use case for Dart also doesn’t help matters.

While I agree the technology is very good and in some cases superior it doesn’t have a path to stable funding, seemingly. Google laid off a big chunk of Dart and Flutter teams last year, and there is no Expo to pickup the slack.

While Meta could do the same for React Native, Expo has always been there to pick up the slack and it receives bigger community support from the community too. For example Shopify has a few great well maintained RN libs

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