We spent 2 weeks implementing the New Architecture and trying to understand its benefits and limits. That included asking friends at Instagram, Spotify, and other teams what they thought.

It wasn't even close to being ready. And worse: unreliable. We pivoted and spent the winter in "deep work" mode learning Swift..

"Aren’t you worried about losing Android users?"

We asked about 500 people what phone they had, turns out 95% of our friends use iPhone.

When we’re ready for growthmaxxing we’ll hire a Staff Android Engineer and build Uno natively using Jetpack Compose.

Google will also likely fine-tune Gemini to write Kotlin.

After listening and learning to people smarter than me I believe 99.9% of the jankiness of the Farcaster app is downstream of React Native and so the idea of a client built with Swift and by extension free of all the bugs I hate most is a HUGE sell even if it is identical in all other ways

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

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Yeah, classic buy/build. We decided to build, which was expensive in time upfront.