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I have some friends at Apple... The story goes something like this: SwiftUI came about because someone who has never been a software engineer, got concerned about losing mindshare to ReactNative et al. So this person created a "task force" to deal with the problem by tacking something on top of UIKit that resembles React, to create a "friendly" ingress funnel into the iOS world.

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That sounds about right!

I recently began developing with Flutter for a project. And whilst I dont love Flutter/Dart that much, I must admit that Google have done an amazing job of proving resources and documentation for the frameworks!

The whole Flutter community and available resources feels very rich, welcoming and embracing!

Tech like Flutter is fresh and exciting to a lot of people, and Apple is right to be worried!

So say what you will about Flutter/Dart, love it or hate it, the docs and community are excellent!

I’ve recently began developing with Flutter as well. Although I’m not sure about the community, but you’re right, the resources and guidance provided by Google are excellent especially for beginners.

There’s a lot more variety of learning resources compared to other languages; there are texts, workshops, videos, code labs, etc. It’s also nice seeing members of the Flutter team facilitate some of the workshops themselves; it’s refreshing to see developers being involved in educating users, instead of ‘outsourcing’ everything to others.

  > SwiftUI came about because someone who has never been a software engineer

so... management?

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