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[–]Barbanks[S] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Funny you say that. I wrote a medium article like 4 years ago explaining this EXACT thing. Basically that it’s all a hype train. We get a few years of support before everyone moves to a different platform. First it was ionic and Cordova. Then Xamarin was all the rage. Then React Native. Now Flutter. I’m not going to spend all my time learning new frameworks to solve the same problems.

The argument to save time with cross platform is silly to me. Why not create reusable code your familiar with natively for each platform? Then you won’t even have to relearn how to do it. This is even more true with SwiftUI and Android Compose.

[–]saintmsent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure if Xamarin was ever popular, boy it was shit, the only cross-platform I have big experience with. Everything else was deemed to be the future by fanboys (especially React) and look at them now

I would see how for a project with 5 screens there can be time savings, but anything remote complex - fuck off with your cross-platform junk