react-native VS flutter-embedded-linux

Compare react-native vs flutter-embedded-linux and see what are their differences.

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react-native flutter-embedded-linux
522 4
115,280 1,123
1.1% 2.0%
10.0 7.5
about 16 hours ago 7 days ago
C++ C++
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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react-native

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.

flutter-embedded-linux

Posts with mentions or reviews of flutter-embedded-linux. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.
  • Native Swift BasicMessageChannel
    2 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 29 Jun 2023
    You can just write a swift wrapper over FlutterDesktopMessenger but you'll also need to write message codec implementation in swift.
  • My Return to Desktop Applications
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jul 2022
    I'm curious which operating systems people are still waiting for. We have delivered Windows, macOS and Linux on stable as of Flutter 3. We don't have plans to add more, but people in the community are working on things like embedded Linux: https://github.com/sony/flutter-embedded-linux

    Disclosure: I'm a Developer Relations Engineer for Flutter

  • Qt Creator 7 Released
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2022
    Oh that sucks. Yeah Qt has gotten really aggressive with their licensing headaches. They broke so many of our CI scripts when they made it mandatory for you to log in to use their Qt installer even for online version.

    And yep. Relying on just Google can be a death sentence. I was hoping to use Android things for a quick demo last month only to find out that it is discontinued. What made me look at flutter was because companies like Sony are driving forward it's development on embedded space ( https://github.com/sony/flutter-embedded-linux ). Tbh I am still looking for something that was as nice as QtQuick on embedded devices, but with a permissive license.

    So other than electron, what options do you see moving forward? All i see is slint ( https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/ ).

  • Coinbase’s successful transition to React Native
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2021
    In no particular order:

    - The type system was essentially like java but perhaps even worse -- in a world with Rust, Haskell, Julia, Kotlin, Scala, and even Golang this seemed egregious. No algebraic data types, inheritance, nullable values, lack of errors-as-values approach. I know they worked hard on the language, but it's like they ignored all the progress in PL over the last like decade+.

    - JSON serialization/deserialization[1] was like the worst parts of Go and the worst parts of Java (again this has to

    - SQLite driver[0] couldn't be used off device. I found this out while trying to write tests that ran off-device. Now there's sqlite3[1] so maybe it's no longer an issue

    - Dart2 was a played down rewrite of Dart1, with JS interop removed. Typescript is a better language than Dart.

    - BloC is overcomplicated and was rolled out poorly at the time (this has more to do with Flutter than Dart). The state management patterns felt like unbaked react (flux pattern) v1.

    All this said, Dart will probably be around for a very long time. Fuschia makes a LOT of sense for Google to continue pursuing, which uses Flutter. Dart could be worse, and I think it's good enough for a bunch of usecases. If it were me, I wouldn't even choose it over Nativescript.

    The Boring Flutter Development Show[3] was/is fantastic, I watched it religiously when I was learning and trying out Flutter -- having a big backer like google means there are always going to be dedicated resources and smart people behind Flutter which honestly probably matters more in the long run than Dart being a shit language. As Golang has shown us, you can just iterate to having a good language.

    Seeing Sony embrace flutter for embedded things is pretty big as well[4]. Sony has a surprisingly strong track record of making technologically competent products:

    - PS Vita (generally regarded as ahead of it's time)

    - Sony SmartWatch 1 & 2 (I owned both, they were ahead of their time, and were very good quality, easily hackable)

    - Sony XPeria phones & tablets (embraced open source and easy bootloader unlock, I own a tablet that I'm extremely happy with)

    [0]: https://pub.dev/packages/sqflite

    [1]: https://pub.dev/packages/json_serializable

    [2]: https://pub.dev/packages/sqlite3

    [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXAUNLWdTcw&list=PLjxrf2q8ro...

    [4]: https://github.com/sony/flutter-embedded-linux

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-native and flutter-embedded-linux you can also consider the following projects:

Quasar Framework - Quasar Framework - Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time

capacitor - Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

spine - Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications

Preact - ⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.

Titanium - 🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript

flutter-elinux - Flutter tools for embedded Linux (eLinux)

semver - Semantic Versioning Specification

blockly - The web-based visual programming editor.

NativeScript - ⚡ Empowering JavaScript with native platform APIs. ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, Capacitor, Ionic, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Flutter and you name it compatible.

Ionic Framework - A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

svelte-capacitor - Build hybrid mobile apps using Svelte and CapacitorJS with live reloading on Android and iOS!