Hacker News Reader

Comment by s_y_n_t_a_x | Hacker News Reader

Ugh, another Flutter media campaign.

Why would you ever learn a Google language and use a Google framework, especially a framework that has to emulate all other platform UIs.

How long until it's shut down?

View on HN

We don't really "emulate" the UI on Android, FWIW. We have one of several implementations of Material design, another of which is designed for the Android View hierarchy, another is designed for JS on the Web, and so on. In some respects Flutter's implementation is actually ahead of the others, so if anything, they're "emulating" us. :-)

You're not using native UI. You're emulating the UI by re-painting it. No matter what you call it, it's an emulation of the native UI, which means it can become out of sync.

Currently React Native can bridge with all Windows platforms, MacOS, Android, iOS. Web can be targeted via React Native Web fork or a wrapper like ReactXP.

That is a more attractive option than an emulated UI. It's similar to wxWidgets vs QT. I much prefer bridging to emulation.

Flutter has been introduced in 2015 while Dart has been around since 2011. Since Google seems to have bold plans for their Fuchsia operating system to replace Linux for mobile, laptop and smart home devices and is using the framework for actual devices they already ship to customers, I'd say it's safe to assume that Flutter and Dart won't be abandoned anytime soon.

It's not safe to assume if it's not part of their core business, especially if it's what you build your software from.

Bold plans are usually where Google fails.

For the same reason people learn Android Java, and use Android to publish Android apps.

But this is to prevent having to learn Java to publish Android apps.

Android uses a Java dialect, now replaced by Kotlin.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com