Ask HN: Between RN and flutter, is there a reason to choose one over the other?

1 points by akritrime 8y ago ↗ HN

I am trying to find a solution that will let us use the same code base on both Android and iOS. Initially, we were thinking about going with Kotlin for Android and develop an app with Swift for iOS later. But it would be nice to be able to launch on both platforms simultaneously. That's why we are looking at React Native and Flutter. So people who have experiences with both, is there any obvious reason to choose one over the other?

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grizzles 8y ago ↗

If you are using flutter, dart is statically typed. So your code will run faster on dart. OTOH RN has RN-web.

I haven't used either but I get the impression that dart probably looks more android-y and RN probably looks more ios-y. So that's worth considering too.