Flutter is truly a piece of great tech with remarkable quality and value. I hope the right path will be found.
I think companies using it for commercial purposes (like what we're doing) should contribute something to the effort to help make sure Flutter not only survives, but flourishes.
Bug bounties, supporting individual developers, supporting efforts and initiatives, professional services, or any other way that helps the project move forward will be great.
> Most of our apps use React. When we first adopted React, we were pleased with the development productivity it provided, but sadly its initial performance was subpar in terms of start-up time, memory consumption, and responsiveness. After significant and complicated optimizations we reached performance benchmarks that were good enough, and yet we desired a new technology that was both fast and simple.
> To our delight, our very first prototype with Flutter easily exceeded our target benchmarks! Without any optimization whatsoever, our Flutter rewrite launched twice as fast as our original app, consumed less runtime memory, and felt more responsive and playful to use
> But React Native is different , JS code compiled to native code using c/c++ compiler on target system. Flutter also do like this one.
Sure, but you're compiling two radically different languages. JavaScript is dynamically typed (even with TypeScript) and Dart has a sound static type system.
It's much easier to compile Dart to efficient native code than it is JavaScript.
I wonder how it compares now with the latest version of RN that brings out a lot of performance gains induced by the removal of their native bridge, and also faster startup by making lazy loading of modules the default option
Faster and better in almost every respect we've looked at vs React Native or Electron. We're super happy with this choice we made quite some time ago.
I'm not qualified to give an in depth review/comparison, however.
Edit: we use flutter to build an app which runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux -- the same code base with pretty minor adaptations to desktop vs mobile and different screen sizes.
The experience has so far been fantastic. It's fast, it's relatively light weight, it's performant, it's a pleasure and we couldn't imagine doing it any other way.
We have worked with flutter since 2019; having built internal apps for our staff, public apps for our customers, small utility apps etc- this has been our experience as well. Not only flutter has been rock solid, easy and fast to develop, it has a wide array of libraries. Long may it continue.
I've been working with Flutter for a little over 2 years nonstop. Before I started this project, knowing enough react, I experimented with react native, Expo, also quasar, capacitor, nativescript, and other cross-platform mobile solutions. Flutter/Dart was just nicer to deal with than everything else. I needed to work with C code too, and Flutter made it straightforward with FFI.
The developer experience was great and the Flutter team was very responsive with questions I asked.
I think companies using it for commercial purposes (like what we're doing) should contribute something to the effort to help make sure Flutter not only survives, but flourishes.
Bug bounties, supporting individual developers, supporting efforts and initiatives, professional services, or any other way that helps the project move forward will be great.