@practiseSafeHex hands down native is way way better than any of the scripting languages out there but you cannot ignore the fact that for apps which are not much performance intensive and can get by using node libraries, you save a lot of time and effort making one code base and creating apps for multiple platforms - for me that is one single point that blurs out all the disadvantages of hybrid languages...for the app that I am building , it's for a small business, doesn't need extensive hardware features - it perfectly fits the bill for a hybrid app and I would save time building one code base instead of having the same logic written in android and swift....

Thanks everyone for your answers, I am trying to build an app as a side hustle so I was down to trying a new language, but it got me intrigued to understand how people actually choose coz react native and flutter both would serve my purpose and other than the fact that react native has a huge community I cannot put my finger on either of them...at my workplace we use iconic with a native wrapper around coz we had performance issues with Cordova in the past and wanted to write the native side ourself so we have more control but for the side hustle I am still not sure I have figured it out so will keep digging....

@volttide thank you so much for that..

@Plasticnova sorry I have never used dart, can you give me a couple major points why dart would be good to use?

@VaderNT but there are people like that all around us right? It doesn't seem to bother them to fake being an engineer or to just write one line of code a day without any interest...while the rest of the guys actually put in extra time just to do it right or to learn something new....how fair is that....

@skydhash I so feel you that is so irritating...this usually happens in my team during scrum meetings, people on the phone go " I couldn't complete my task because it's not working" and we wait wait and wait hoping they wud elaborate further but what follows is an ackward silence..until my scrum master would ask what is not working...