Valdi
Ranked 8 of 13 cross-platform UI frameworks by recommenders
Snap's open-source cross-platform UI framework, praised for native performance and for being developed in the open by strong engineers. Critics say its value proposition is unclear and it is over-engineered.
Snap's open-source cross-platform UI framework, praised for native performance and for being developed in the open by strong engineers. Critics say its value proposition is unclear and it is over-engineered.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Interesting project from strong engineers
“He's a wonderful engineer and I'm thrilled to see this project out in the open.”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance” “Definitely one of the cooler projects to watch while I was there.”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance”
Other cross-platform UI frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other cross-platform UI frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flutter | 171 | 106 | 62% | 12 | 3 yrs11 owners | — |
| React Native | 98 | 128 | 43% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | — |
| Kotlin Multiplatform | 27 | 12 | 69% | 9 | 2 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Expo | 21 | 10 | 68% | 11 | — | Approved |
| ValdiThis page | 10 | 4 | 71% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I'd rather Valdi and other efforts have a different opinionated design and syntax”
“I wholeheartedly agree for the same reasons”
“Full VSCode debugging [0] which is nice”
“boy, is it over-engineered and complex!”
“Unfortunately no Linux, Windows or even HTML targets?”
“A Snapchat-developed UI framework where communication is done via Discord sounds like something carefully designed to repulse me.”
“tried (and failed) to port it to web”
“I wish the native iOS part was written in Swift rather than Objective-C”
“its value-proposition is not yet where it needs to be”
“Definitely one of the cooler projects to watch while I was there.”
“He's a wonderful engineer and I'm thrilled to see this project out in the open.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.