Flutter now has more GitHub stars 🌟 than React Native
New king of cross platform development 🙌🏾💪🏾😍💙💙💙💙
Posted Jan 6, 2020, 9:56 AM UTC
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Not surprising. I am old and done a ton of GUI development and Flutter offers the best developer experience I have seen.
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Especially on mobile.
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Well OK cool, but these stars mean nothing...
Not that I don't like and root for Flutter.
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Of course stars mean something. They mean people like it. And THAT is nothing to ignore.
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I use stars on github for bookmarking, even when something is terrible and crap, and buggy, I want to bookmark it to know if it has improved or can I still show it as anti-pattern ;)
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so what you're saying is you star interesting things regardless of the state they are in. good enough for me.
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so what you're saying is you star interesting things regardless of the state they are in. good enough for me.
Correct. React slider that it's 16Mb dependency in npm? STAR.
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I always something interesting starred so I can find it later, but I always ended up Googling them when I need to find the repo😂😂😂
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But then in that case the star indicates interest
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Interest in something is not the same as liking something.
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Are you the guy I worked on that COD Zombies app with in 2017?
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Flutter seems to attract developers that are more likely to use emojis and star things.
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I hope you're aware this is a perfect comment to reply to with "ok boomer"
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ok boomer
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How so? I'm making an observation which could partially explain another observation made by OP.
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Seems like an odd statement?
I love Flutter and rarely if ever use emojis and not really even sure what "star things" even is?
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The thing being referenced by OP. Github stars are a thing.
I wasn't making a judgement about you. Just an observation from my experience.
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I don't think I've used an emoji on a desktop since I wrote my last AIM away message, so I would agree that mobile developers probably are more likely to use emojis more than others. I'm not sure what a "star thing is" though.
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Staring a project on GitHub.
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For what it's worth, the Flutter team use the amount of thumbs up reactions on an issue as a metric for community interest in a particular issue. This means that the Flutter team themselves are the ones encouraging people to "use emojis."
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Interesting. Thanks! It's a noticable distinction in the culture of Flutter. Didn't understand where it was coming from before now.
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Would not say nothing. It means there is interest in Flutter. Plus the interest is growing.
Say there were 100 stars. Would that mean anything?
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It means that it's not popular or star worthy.
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That's great for Flutter (and for all mobile developers as competition elevates the bar for everyone).
Just don't think it means Flutter is more popular or has a bigger ecosystem than RN. That's not the case at least for now.
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The big issue Flutter has in comparison to React Native is lack of an existing ecosystem. There's already a bunch of React devs and a billion JS packages for anything you wanna do already. Flutter would involve having to do everything from scratch. It's improving but I honestly do think Dart over JS or TS was a mistake.
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Long term this means you have stuff better suited to mobile. Choosing JavaScript would get a lot more stuff off the bat but a lot of that was designed for other things and even if you are able to get it to work will have fairly significant compromises.
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So we have to use the battery hungry Javascript VM to run our application through a JS bridge? No thank you.
Javascript shouldn't be used everywhere and is not the solution for everything.
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Doesn't sound like you've done much Flutter development
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Tbh I've found it's such a straight-forward system to use I'd say it's less of a learning curve to get Flutter than Svelte if coming from a React background, despite being a different language.
For experienced devs a different language isn't much more than learning the few differences anyway.
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Once it is picked up by a good number of companies to create prod apps, then the game will change.
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Let's see. Anyway, whenever there's competition, customers/users win.
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But we developers loose. Switching technologies is not an easy task.
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We developers are the customers/users of the frameworks. You don't even need to switch technologies to be benefited from competition as whatever framework you use will probably try to catch up to the improvements brought by the other framework.
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I think RN is mature, but Flutter is the future.
Flutter's widgets are far better than any other tool provided by RN or Ionic. With a very little effort you can build great user interfaces, spending a reduced amount of time. There's no need to use web standards abstractions like JSX. VS Code or Android Studio auto-completion and real time code inspection running perfectly in 100% of your code.
Dart is a very powerful language, much more complete than JavaScript or TypeScript. You can see this when you manipulate a string or an array for the first time. Sometimes I think I'm coding in C# instead of Dart...
I started Flutter wishing it was written in JavaScript. After I started working with Dart, now I wish NodeJs could be rewritten in Dart. JavaScript seems like plain old C language when compared to newer languages like Java, Python or C#.
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Imo Typescript is the happy middle ground.
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Middle ground for what? Does js really have any benefits over other mainstream languages other than ubiquity?
It is 'simple' for newer devs not having to worry about annotating types, but modern typed languages let you sidestep that with a 'var' now anyway, and the lack of full code completion and wooliness of types I think actually hinders learning.
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Ecosystem. I prefer Dart, but JS's ecosystem is so much more developed. If you're looking to do anything in JS, odds are there's already a package out there for it. Typescript is the happy middle in that it feels more modern than JS, but is still fully compatible with it. Like Kotlin to Java.
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Wrong, the odds are there are 10 packages out there and only one of them will work.
JS just has more rubbish, it's not more developed.
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It's a great milestone and definitely helps to persuade companies like Hey look at GitHub it has larger community than react native. Might not be practically true but it's a milestone. Remember flutter started with 0 stars...
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React Native had 10k stars when they created the repo :D
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Impressive. React is amazing for web development ( adopted at our company), but mobile wise seems like flutter is taking the upper hand you want it or not.
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Yup, I personally prefer flutter
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Flutter + Flutter Web + Flutter Desktop and it will completely destroy all other frameworks. Truly one codebase. Hopefully Web and Desktop come out of preview and aplpha this year.
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Its a possibility. But doesn't JavaScript do that already?
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Now if only they could smash some of the bigger bugs like crashes on android 6 if you build with an app bundle as Google Play really wants you to do.
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When did GitHub start nesting stars?
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This is awesome! For work I have to create a RN application, while learning Flutter for personal projects and find Flutter/Dart more enjoyable to use than RN/JS.
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Can you list a few reasons why you feel that way?
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Next milestone: Flutter has less open issues than React Native on GitHub!