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xamarin vs react native vs flutter on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, react native leads xamarin vs react native vs flutter with 25,539 mentions to flutter’s 16,261, peaking in May 2018.

Mention-over-time for xamarin vs react native vs flutter, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

xamarin5,784 mentions, peak Mar 2016react native25,539 mentions, peak May 2018flutter16,261 mentions, peak Oct 2024
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

Cross-platform mobile, baton by baton: Xamarin carries the write-once dream ~2016, React Native takes over for the JS crowd 2017–18, then Flutter overtakes both and peaks into 2024.

The stories behind each line

Top “xamarin” stories
  1. Microsoft Acquires Xamarin 1,126 points · 2016
  2. Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced 944 points · 2016
  3. Xamarin Open-Sourced 581 points · 2016
  4. Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase 322 points · 2024
Top “react native” stories
  1. React Native is now open source 1,039 points · 2015
  2. React Native for Android 907 points · 2015
  3. React Native for Windows and Mac 715 points · 2020
  4. Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native 666 points · 2020
Top “flutter” stories
  1. We're forking Flutter 853 points · 2024
  2. Flutter 2 791 points · 2021
  3. Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop 654 points · 2019
  4. Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? 629 points · 2018

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