> Flutter is amazingly successful. It's already the leading mobile app development framework
Is this true? Over iOS native, Android native, React Native, or any other hybrid frameworks?
EDIT: numbers can tell different stories, but here's one at least against React Native (which I'm most interested in) in Flutter's favor: https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/21/why-flutter-is-the-mos...
Compared to the native tech the advantages are easy, you have a single codebase and UI for all the platforms. The native UI apis are also moving faster than Flutter in my opinion which makes Flutter lower maintenance as well on this area.
Compared to React Native, it's younger but more stable in my opinion, I don't want to deal with the js package churn rate and its bad testing story. I come back 6 months after to my flutter projects and after 2 hours I've upgraded everything, good luck with that on the js side.
If you care about Linux, Flutter is also a better choice than React Native in this scenario. React Native Gtk target is abandoned and the only realistic solution is to use an Electron wrapper (well it's not that native anymore isn't it)
The only downside to me is the web target which isn't that great, if you just want to use the web target as an app demo though, it's good enough.
I need to dedicate some time to try it.
But maybe they're right. I think it would be exceedingly hard to actually get real numbers on it anyway.
That is, he has first hand knowledge of Flutter's numbers and now that he works for a competitor, no motivation to inflate Flutter's stats.
Without getting into specifics (which I cannot share), Flutter is wildly successful in the market place and continues to grow YoY.
Being the ex director of a project means you will always have a reason to inflate the stats of that project, even if it is just for personal pride. I don't see how Hickson leaving Google means he doesn't still have part of his work life tied to the project regardless of employer.
> Without getting into specifics (which I cannot share), Flutter is wildly successful in the market place and continues to grow YoY.
That's cool, but this is just more of the same and more of what people seem surprised by. Numbers don't really matter unless they're visible and verifiable.
It's completely reasonable to continue to be skeptical of these claims without public numbers.
FWIW, I was surprised by the numbers myself but it's above my pay grade to share them publicly or discuss specifics.
I noticed a huge explosion of interest coming from third world countries prior to pandemic where money is tight.
China BigCos are adopting it.
If you go to hi-tech forums in India, lots of participation around flutter too.
That's two most populous nations in the world by large margin so you can keep looking for stats while they're chugging along :)
I would say in jest that it might be inversely correlated with success, but you also wouldn't want to work with, say, brainfuck.