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Dart/Flutter is their React Native competitor. It’s in the same space as Xamarin - A secondary language and UI toolkit who’s selling point is rapid development for multiple platforms.

Kotlin is to Java (on Android) as Swift is to Objective-C (on Apple) - the successor primary platform language.

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Thanks, that's a solid summary.

Feels like an environment that moves so quickly (to someone like me anyway). Can barely keep up.

I think it is better to compare Flutter with Apache Cordova / Ionic Capacitor, as Flutter actually has a DOM tree behind the scenes, but instead of using a Web View to render the application Flutter renders the app directly to a GPU Accelerated surface using Skia.

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