Comment by dboreham
3 months ago
Not apples comparison imho. Flutter requires using a new fringe language and while it might be a very nice language it's a heavy lift in most businesses contexts to march off into a new language just to use a mobile framework.
So, the main reason for Expo (there are others) is: get to write in the language most developers already know.
Fringe but incredibly similar to Typescript. I don't think there exist any other language that is not a direct dialect of Javascript that's as similar. I didn't find there to be any language barrier, especially now with LLMs who are perfect for answering one-off questions about the few diffefences. The tooling is better as well, which means even less of a barrier.