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If you were to build a mobile app today, would you build it in Swift or React Native (or other)? What are the current trade-offs?
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
If cross-platform is no issue, I’d build it in Swift. I prefer it over React Native plus there’s less build and distribution headaches. Tradeoff is obviously that it’s iOS only.
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Why do you prefer Swift to React Native? And what are the build and distribution headaches? (I'm a total noob on mobile - I have done mostly backend a bit of frontend React dev)
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
If you would have asked me 2-3 years ago, I would have said RN hands down. But SwiftUI was the gamechanger for me. It’s really nice to use, easy to learn, and makes it so you don’t have to reach for some of the more complex Swift tools nearly as often.
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Justin Hunter
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As for build headaches, just like with Electron, you’re relying on a third party to properly orchestrate a build and distribution process when you use RN. It works, obviously. But it’s not as seamless as a distribution directly from your Xcode project in Swift.
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