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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by wtetzner on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:11PM (#23161251)
A killer app is something like Rails. Rails made Ruby popular, because it was so good that people who otherwise wouldn't have been interested in Ruby were willing to use it for the benefits they got from Rails.
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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by satvikpendem on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:57PM (#23162147)
I suppose Flutter is Dart's killer app, since you're comparing frameworks and languages. Rails is to Ruby as Flutter is to Dart, as it were. I suggest you give it a try. Personally, this felt like the "killer" feature to me, fully advanced animations that I'm not sure are possible on native widget based frameworks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyoHclCqc8
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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by hopia on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:02PM (#23162210)
Wouldn't Flutter be the killer app to Dart as Rails was to Ruby by your analogy?
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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by wtetzner on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:00PM (#23162616)
Maybe? I don't know enough about it to say. I was just trying to clarify what a "killer app" was by using an example.
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