Re:Ask HN: Is there much future in being a Swift developer?
by muzani on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:13PM
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I don't know anything about Dart, though. I'm not keen on Flutter, for a number of reasons, namely some lower level things. The company I'm in took a long hard look at whether we'd do Flutter or native, and we went with native because it gave us more control and is more predictable.
Kotlin offers much of what Swift does, both try to adopt the same features as the other. It does pseudo-functional programming nicely, which is what a lot of people look for these days.
If you want to compare career paths for both, Dart/Flutter is still early and doesn't have enough data points. Kotlin's popularity grew at a similar rate early on, despite no MFAANG backing, and now Google is officially replacing their docs with it. The fact that Google pumps out so much recent effort into building up both native Android/Kotlin and Flutter/Dart means something, but on a gut feel they're investing more into Android/Kotlin/Jetpack.
Kotlin offers much of what Swift does, both try to adopt the same features as the other. It does pseudo-functional programming nicely, which is what a lot of people look for these days.
If you want to compare career paths for both, Dart/Flutter is still early and doesn't have enough data points. Kotlin's popularity grew at a similar rate early on, despite no MFAANG backing, and now Google is officially replacing their docs with it. The fact that Google pumps out so much recent effort into building up both native Android/Kotlin and Flutter/Dart means something, but on a gut feel they're investing more into Android/Kotlin/Jetpack.