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> because it was impossible to find Flutter people and, most importantly, people who were proficient on that platform

If you can't find them, you gotta train them

We did that with one guy after month 3, the guy accepted and started Flutter course, etc. He quit the job on month 5 arguing he disliked Flutter and Dart.

sample size of 1. It may not have been for that individual but that doesnt mean hiring and training on the job is incorrect

Correct, but the reality was we couldn't afford a larger sample to see if Flutter is superior or not to other options.

i’ve trained on flutter for over 8 months and pushed an from design to app on the app store and built the api in dart as well.

i am one of those weirdos who likes it but nobody is hiring so i am rebrushing back up on javascript and react native. one area i would love to see is json being automatically accessible just like in javascript, also their routing in flutter needs work. it’s not for everyone but it has a ton of potential if some things get change

Any idea how long it should take? I don't do frontend, but when I tried making GUIs back in the Tk heydays, it was feasible to cook up a very functional GUI in the first day of learning/usage.

6 months for learning and becoming proficient in a new framework/language

Any guy with reasonable coding experience in frontend or backend can do a project in React Native in less than one month. I was CSS/HTML frontend development back in the days and it took me one month to learn JS+React Native. It's very convinient and straightfoward process. In Flutter, with all the widget, folders, environment/IDE setup, concepts. It takes longer.

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