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Comment by saagarjha | Hacker News Reader

> I know almost no JavaScript. I know C and asm and python. So... looking at the two, guess which one looked better to me?

I fail to see your point; surely Dart was a new language for you as well?

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I assume he means that in selecting between two languages, with that given lang background, he made a preference choice of Dart.

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.

FWIW, and this is just my personal experience, but I find Dart to be very similar to Typescript, and we have JS engineering teams building out new mobile apps in Dart ;)

As a JS engineer with experience using react I can say that Flutter/Dart is so much easier from a development perspective then react-native. I've done a little bit of swift development as well and the ease/speed of development is comparable.

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.

If you can manage to remain inside the Expo dev-loop, that personally is my preference for ease and first in class DX.

I’ll definitely continue to observe Flutter/Dart, but the investment/payoff doesn’t appear large enough yet for our use cases.

Not having to ALSO know JS + XML + HTML + CSS... it looks familiar coming from C.

If Flutter apps are two things, Flutter and Dart. Then React Native apps are six things or so.

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