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Comparing React Native and Flutter in terms of performance and their ability to leverage native features on iPhones involves several aspects:

Performance:

Flutter:

Known for its high performance. It compiles to ARM or Intel machine code as well as JavaScript for web apps, which can result in better performance than React Native. This is due to its direct compilation into native code.

React Native:

Uses a bridge to communicate between the native modules and JavaScript code, which can sometimes lead to performance bottlenecks, especially in complex or heavy animations. However, for most applications, React Native's performance is more than adequate.

Native Features:

Flutter:

Offers a rich set of pre-designed widgets that follow specific platform guidelines (like Material Design for Android and Cupertino for iOS). It has the capability to access native features, but sometimes requires the use of third-party packages or custom platform-specific code.

React Native:

Provides a more straightforward approach to accessing native features of the iPhone. It has a large ecosystem of libraries and tools, and it's easier to integrate with native modules in React Native. This can be an advantage if your app heavily relies on native functionalities.

Development Experience:

Flutter:

Known for its "hot reload" feature which allows developers to see changes almost instantly, enhancing the development speed. The Dart language, used by Flutter, is less familiar to many developers compared to JavaScript (used by React Native).

React Native:

Also offers "hot reload" and a wide range of libraries and tools. Its use of JavaScript makes it more accessible to a larger pool of developers.

Community and Ecosystem:

Both Flutter and React Native have strong communities. React Native, being older, has a more mature ecosystem with a wider range of libraries and tools. Flutter, however, has been rapidly growing and gaining a lot of popularity.

In summary, while both frameworks are capable of creating high-performance, native-like applications on iPhones, the choice between React Native and Flutter often comes down to specific project requirements, developer familiarity with the programming languages (Dart for Flutter and JavaScript for React Native), and the specific native features required for the app. React Native might have a slight edge in integrating with native modules, but Flutter is catching up fast and offers excellent performance

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Thanks! Seems like Flutter would be a better choice for my purposes πŸΆπŸΎπŸ«‚

lfg πŸ’ͺ🏻

And I get to learn yet another programming language 🐢🐾🀣

that's awesome! 😎

dart should be what browsers run on but mozilla cockblocked it.

Explain?

I think at one point Dart was proposed to replace JS in the browser 🐢🐾🫑

it's a better language, it's strict typed, it has a lower memory footprint and it's simpler.

i think Go is the language but that is so much further than the small step Dart makes from javascript.

Prob going to build our mobile app with Flutter. Several different #nostr libraries available.

Yes, I did a little research and saw a few nostr libs already. Makes things so much easier to work with 🐢🐾🫑