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Re:Ask HN: Is React Native still popular? by neya on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:17PM (#38501647)
> I think it's best to write modules in Swift/(Kotlin/Java) and have your React Native UI communicate with your modules via the bridge.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just write everything in Flutter? The react + base swift modules looks like a maintainability nightmare, and especially consultants would never touch if the employee who wrote it ever left the company.

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Re:Ask HN: Is React Native still popular? by wredue on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:31PM (#38501767)
It’s difficult to pick flutter because Google has 0 goodwill left.

Even if flutter is good (and I don’t believe it’s all that great), you’re still taking a massive gamble adopting it, and that’s a huge leap that a significant portion of developers are not going to take.

Googles reputation for randomly ending the life of stuff makes flutter an impossible choice.

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