Comment by aquariusDue
12 hours ago
Same here, I've slept these past few years on Flutter even when someone recommended trying it out and was pretty enthused about it. Last month I got roped in a greenfield project and allowed to chose the stack, instead of the tried and true React Native I went for Flutter and I'm glad I did so.
Also shout-out to flutter_rust_bridge and a video[0] on YouTube from a conference explaining how to fit it in, I get to use Flutter and Dart for the UI parts and everything else in Rust. Another great thing because of Flutter's hot-reload I get to avoid the sucky parts of waiting for Rust code to compile to see UI changes. I've also had good (not great) success getting Gemini 3 Pro to sketch out the initial UI and the boilerplate and that also allowed me to move a bit faster than I would've otherwise.
Flutter + Rust sounds like a solid combo. A lot of colleagues swear by Rust – been meaning to dig deeper. Will check the video, thanks!
Hot-reload is something I miss in native – SwiftUI previews help but not the same. For my use case native made sense, but I can see why Flutter wins for greenfield projects with multi-platform needs.