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Comment by ComradePhil | Hacker News Reader

You should re-title this to "Why I never tried Flutter and why I will never know what I missed".

Has Flutter fixed its horrendous web application performance yet? Every time I go back and give it a shot I'm appaled at how laggy the web backend is.

The mobile backend isn't very power efficient either if I'm being honest, but at least the resulting experience is acceptable in terms of smoothness and responsiveness.

Has Flutter fixed its horrendous web application performance yet? Every time I go back and give it a shot I'm appaled at how laggy the web backend is.

They're winning over react programmers by delivering the performance they've come to expect.

In fact, if you consider "native" to mean "using the standard platform frameworks", then the stated proposition "Are native apps dead? Not yet… but they’re going to be." will be realized by Flutter.

So far, Flutter is jankier than a webapp on iOS and on the web.

You could say the same when comparing native iOS apps vs web apps, and these days almost nobody cares. This jankiness will be solved --wether it is by optimizing flutter's core rendering engine or just because mobile devices will receive more powerful CPUs.

One way or another you will be able to build hugely successful multiplatform apps just using Flutter.

I hope so, it would be quite compelling if it was but so far I've been unimpressed and there's a lot of resources being pumped into the project.

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