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Because Dart has a useful standard library, you’re still getting a much more manageable dependency tree than any JS framework could provide.



Is this based on experience? Not saying you're wrong, but I've been bit before by putting emphasis on the language when what I really needed was tooling and a healthy ecosystem.


My experience with Flutter was more enjoyable than with native iOS or React Native.

I don’t enjoy Javascript for many reasons in addition to it’s lack of standard library.

Swift is a fine language if only the compiler could keep up with a large project.

Dart is both fast to compile and has a usable suite of standard libraries.


Is the standard library much better than Swift/Objective-C? As the migration was from a native iOS application to Flutter, I'm not sure why you're pulling in "JS framework" in your argument.


The author dedicated a fair amount of the post to say whether cross-platform frameworks are a good idea, the majority of posts here seem to be focused on the same subject. Given a lot of discussion about Ionic and React Native here, I figured I would toss in my two-cents.

To my memory of working with Swift, I wasn’t left wanting much when I moved to Dart.

Dart isn’t as interested in value-semantics as Swift, so there are all kinds of Dart packages for immutable classes and collections, so that’s a notable miss.

I believe they’re planning to add something more like Swift’s struct to Dart. (dataclass proposal)




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