Flutter

“I'm a heavy user of Flutter especially in the age of AI because even if you could have the AI rewrite 6 different version for 6 different platforms”

“it's still the best for UI if you want to support mobile, web, and desktop, as no other UI framework comes close”

“there's just so much more documentation (and StackOverflow answers etc.) for Flutter than for Flet”

“React Native and Flutter as cross platform frameworks are best for Startups which can't handle 2 mobile developers.”

“Flutter is solid enough to implement apps which are near native ones in terms of performance and "look & feel"”

“Flutter is quite good for shipping quickly and a set of decent same/similar apps. You lose some "quality" and a lot of "native performance"”

“its good at mobile, developer experience simply just better compared to java,kotlin xml UI declaration”

“since then the framework has improved a whole lot, together with its build chain, and is the best way to do crossplatform nowadays”

“It's just so hard to commit to anything like this Google makes without a full expectation of getting rug pulled.”

“I find the architecture simple to follow, no need for "either print apps as fast as possible or to emulate some Clean Code like behavior"”

“it's okay and good for mobile cross, when it comes to desktop, I'd have to struggle to support linux with quick hangs”

“TypeScript means shipping a JS VM, which is precisely the overhead Flutter was designed to avoid.”

“With the popularity in the Chinese ecosystem alone there's gotta be a billion plus people using flutter.”

“it's a matter of time before they kill it like they did with so many UI libraries and frameworks already”

“Why would I write Flutter UIs in Dart, fighting the widget-tree ceremony and endless build() boilerplate”

“it was conceived primarily as mobile-oriented, and so on desktop you're stuck with half-baked third party components”

“Try the Flutter and native Android/Kotlin Jetpack compose if you want a feel what they are suppose to feel like.”

“there's plenty of HN threads about Flutter where you will see this sentiment, not only about performance, also about UX”

“nothing comes close to Flutter when it comes to slapping together cross platform GUIS that just work”

“It's helped us move extremely fast with a small team and get to this stage of our business journey.”

“if you do things step-wise, and check in intermediate results so you can easily roll back failed experiments”

“Flutter for desktop on Linux is actually quite solid now, and the performance difference from Electron is noticeable.”

“they are able to recreate all of the platform specific widgets purely by having design engineers eyeball the implementations”

“Flutter does cross platform + web and is as close to native as you'll get without writing code directly in Swift, C#, etc.”

“Flutter is almost there and maybe its lack of uptake is just enough to show that there really isn't demand”

“It's being used more now than ever before, with both enterprise use as well as 30% of all new free iOS app store apps are now using Flutter.”

“Flutter is undergoing a major refactor where they're decoupling Material and Cupertino into separate packages.”

“Flutter is essentially a game engine so it bypasses the typical cycles involved with native widgets”

“It was a very focused app though, so the size of our codebase didn't really grow with the number of installs.”

“Flutter still doesn't support liquid glass on iOS so it doesn't seem like a serious contender to me at this point”

“Flutter is used by millions of devs (and nearly ⅓ of free apps submitted to AppStore), but is missing services for businesses.”

“I much prefer shipping a consistent app over debugging why some react-native-* is dropping frames”

“Flutter by itself was also pretty god awful since it was slowly reinventing native UI/UX from a canvas.”

“VSCode or neovim with Flutter and really most every other UI framework like React (and Native) work great”

“Flutter has potential but just like any other Google tech it's just shitty over time due to lack of TLC.”

“seeing Flutter chip away at even a small portion of it gives a lot of hope for a better competitive landscape”

“Flutter has thrown away all the usability and robustness of existing components and just reimplemented everything”

“Flutter itself has been a pretty first class citizen then it comes to documentation and developer tooling/experience.”

“I think a lot of ergonomics issues of the Flutter are because of Dart language lacking in some areas.”

“In my brief experiments with Flutter, I must admit I didn't enjoy the experience of using the autoformatting”