The Real ugly Truth about Flutter

A lot of inaccurate stuff is floating around. Let’s correct that.

First, some gems that you may not be aware of:

1. 2014 sdcard size was 32gig and in 2019 its 512gig and in 2020 it will be 1 TB. In short words, hundreds of apps per user. Pay attention as that is one of the trends Google is hooking into with the Flutter framework.
2. Fortune 1000 firms and early startups mobile dev cost model cannot afford double the costs and double the work to develop a mobile app targeting ios and android. AND, all the firms that could afford that already have their mobile apps committed to the market place.
3. While Facebook did an admirable job in marketing FB React Native as a React framework, its a React-lite framework and does not include the core react feature of manipulation of a UI child node based on state change as its re-using the native widgets which are all pre-react and not react. Its only react part is the event handling.
4. Edge cases of plugins not maintained in thew Flutter app framework has nothing to do with the Plugin community being the core feature of flutter in offloading the OS platform channel heavy lifting off the individual mobile app developer’s shoulders.

So now after a few months in playing with it as a former Android developer what is ugly about it? Its easier, little to no performance tuning required for most ot all non-edge cases and no back porting of new features required. ANd, its the same blazing 60 fps animation on both ios and android.

The only ugly part I can find is the lack of jobs right now. Where are they?