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Comment by denysvitali | Hacker News Reader

Flutter, from experience, works really well on Android. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the web (see for example [1]).

I think that if these performance issues were to be solved, Flutter would see a bigger adoption. In any case IMHO Flutter >>>>> Electron

[1]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/56257

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Flutter on the web is absurd: At least when I last checked, it's been rendering UI widgets into an HTML canvas by default, using its own low-level drawing library.

That sounds about as good of an idea as the old Java desktop GUI framework that used to (poorly) imitate native UI elements of Windows and macOS: Everything always looked three major versions behind and felt extremely janky.

I wouldn't care less if it worked in a performant way - in the end Flutter apps are using their own design (Material 2 / 3) - so rendering them in a Canvas is OK-ish.

The problem is that, on the web, the performance is extremely poor, so Flutter is still not worth being used there (IMHO).

Last I knew it had significant performance issues on iOS (framerate drops/stutters), which dampens its cross platform appeal somewhat and is part of why I’ve heard of apps using Flutter for the Android port of their app, but nowhere else.

How old is that info? We’re using it, and it is buttery smooth on both phone platforms.

Not that old. Only when Impeller was enabled by default last year did Flutter become usable on ios.

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