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Derp. Read it again.

• hectdev 6d ago
  Shopify is moving its mobile apps from React Native back to native Swift and Kotlin. With the main cost of native gone, the benefits of staying close to platform APIs and first-party tooling win out. This has been my ethos. That native is better than shared.
  • npunt 6d ago
    Your argument was you've argued your whole career for native. The article argues only very recently the cost equation has changed. Your argument reads like you are not taking into account the broader context or the passage of time.
    • hectdev 6d ago
      I'll put it this way, my argument was pro native. And in the context of the article, if a large company had unlimited resources, they would choose native. I'm not discussing the business case for it, but the end result of it being the better option. It can be seen as "Shopify tried Reactive Native and left it behind the second they could after sinking resources into it for 6 years".
      • hn993302 6d ago
        Everyone always knew native was better if dev cost weren't a factor
        • fingerlocks 6d ago
          Go back in time and read the react-native vs native debates. Many react advocates claimed otherwise
          • smackeyacky 6d ago
            Time and progress have overtaken them. At the time they were likely correct but I certainly wouldn’t bother with react native any more when the LLMs have gotten so good
          • hn993302 5d ago
            What was the claimed advantage of react-native aside from ease of use?