I think companies using it for commercial purposes (like what we're doing) should contribute something to the effort to help make sure Flutter not only survives, but flourishes.
Bug bounties, supporting individual developers, supporting efforts and initiatives, professional services, or any other way that helps the project move forward will be great.
How does it compare to React Native from user and developer experience perspectives? Are there other competitors?
https://webostv.developer.lge.com/news/2024-07-15-new-and-su...
> Most of our apps use React. When we first adopted React, we were pleased with the development productivity it provided, but sadly its initial performance was subpar in terms of start-up time, memory consumption, and responsiveness. After significant and complicated optimizations we reached performance benchmarks that were good enough, and yet we desired a new technology that was both fast and simple.
> To our delight, our very first prototype with Flutter easily exceeded our target benchmarks! Without any optimization whatsoever, our Flutter rewrite launched twice as fast as our original app, consumed less runtime memory, and felt more responsive and playful to use
But React Native is different , JS code compiled to native code using c/c++ compiler on target system. Flutter also do like this one.
Embedded browser is slower than native app, because extra browser layer than native one.
Sure, but you're compiling two radically different languages. JavaScript is dynamically typed (even with TypeScript) and Dart has a sound static type system.
It's much easier to compile Dart to efficient native code than it is JavaScript.
I'm not qualified to give an in depth review/comparison, however.
Edit: we use flutter to build an app which runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux -- the same code base with pretty minor adaptations to desktop vs mobile and different screen sizes.
The experience has so far been fantastic. It's fast, it's relatively light weight, it's performant, it's a pleasure and we couldn't imagine doing it any other way.
The developer experience was great and the Flutter team was very responsive with questions I asked.
The other xplat framework same as Flutter:
- React Native
- Kotlin Multiplatform
- NET MAUI
- NativeScript
- Slint
NativeScript