• AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Flutter is native. It gets compiled to an executable, it just takes a render plane from the underlying OS and renders everything in it’s own engine. They’re working on a new render system that will make it go even faster.

    React Native is just a fancy web browser wrapping with some helper APIs.

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      8 months ago

      RN is native too I think, at least it advertises itself as a way to compile some kind of XML syntax into native widgets on either platform. An improvement to PWAs even if I despise typescript

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        8 months ago

        yeah, it displays native widgets but there is still a js engine (browser) running in the background. So the basically made a layer between native components and Javascript. But the code which is running is js and js is slow.

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      React Native is just a fancy web browser wrapping with some helper APIs.

      React native is not a browser. It uses native components.