RVrvz·May 2, 2022
Right, So is that why Discord was successful in using 'React Native' (RN) and also was able to implement the same features (Stage Channels) faster than Clubhouse (iOS only in early 2021) did for their Android users at the time?
Or is that why Coinbase announced a successful transition to RN [0] given the metrics they outlined in their blogpost? Perhaps is that also why when it comes to needing high performance, the largest stock broker in India (Zerodha) went from Native to RN and settled on using Flutter? [1]
Why didn't they go back to native then? The problem with this article is that it is from an unrealistic and absolutist perspective. Just look at this nonsense:
> And if you ever need to share code between your iOS and Android apps, you can always use C++; which was the solution adopted by Dropbox for almost a decade.
And a decade la
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ter, is even Dropbox using their own solution today? Why is it archived then? [2] When they needed to share code between their native iOS and Android, apps why did they go back to native? [3]
The author is not being realistic. His suggestions are more of an expensive solution that gets your greenfield project to market at a slower rate as demonstrated by Clubhouse. Is that what you want?
[0] https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbases-successful-tr...
[1] https://zerodha.tech/blog/from-native-to-react-native-to-flu...
[2] https://github.com/dropbox/djinni
[3] https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/03/dropbox-android-kotlin/