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People who think npm and react were a mistake obviously have never used react native. WHY ARE WE DOING CROSS PLATFORM IN JAVASCRIPT 😭😭😭

DX Engineer | Head of Developer Relations at /pinata | Building orbiter.host | stevedylan.dev/links | opinions are my own

Im the guy that posted all those factory memes once

You can definitely build some cool stuff, Warpcast is a shining example, I just think it was a horrible idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol. I’m personally of the opinion of writing native apps in native languages as god intended it, not installing 2000 npm packages. JavaScript was made for the web, and while you can definitely stretch it to do more (which is arguably impressive), you gotta stop somewhere. The amount of errors and random bugs I get in a RN dev env proves that to me at least. 

Several of the creators of electron looked back and regretted the decision. Those devs ended up building Zed in rust because it made way more sense for that use case and it’s BRILLIANT. It’s an incredible piece of software. In the end people can do what they want but damn if I will have an opinion about it lol

I guess it depends on your critique, JS is slow or JS is a bad language or some other, mysterious, third thing.

Re: JS is bad. There are two types of languages etc etc

Re: JS is slow. It's not really a concern, JS is just an orchestrator for the underlying native components. Most valid complaint imo is slow js engine start time (we see this with Warpcast) and issues around native interop for things like scroll lists. BUT this trade off isn't without positives like easier updates, speed and flexibility of development and cross platform dev being made much easier. 

All that said, if you don't like it just use swift or kotlin and go native

Instead, why aren’t we making browser faster than native, and end-run this shit show.

there's Tauri so you don't have to use RN anymore

also mobile dev is pain because Android Studio