I know almost no JavaScript. I know C and asm and python. So... looking at the two, guess which one looked better to me?
The code for Dart just makes sense. It’s not beholden to JS or XML or HTML or CSS. It just does it’s own thing.
If you are heavily invested in JS, I bet there are aspects of Flutter that are still appealing, but if your aren’t invested in JS, I see no reason to get in just for React sake.
I fail to see your point; surely Dart was a new language for you as well?
As a counterpoint, we have whole swathes of JS engineering teams building new mobile apps and would select react-native / Typescript (and where possible Expo) over Dart.
Maybe react-native is easier if you don't know react but for me it seems to keep only the worst parts of react and forcing you into using a lot of components for ui that I found to be poorly documented.
I’ll definitely continue to observe Flutter/Dart, but the investment/payoff doesn’t appear large enough yet for our use cases.
If Flutter apps are two things, Flutter and Dart. Then React Native apps are six things or so.