JOjondot·Sep 28, 2016
I'm the author of http://programmingreactnative.com, maintain the https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native list and built some other tools and libraries for React Native, along with a few apps.
Obviously the conclusion that follows is that I think React Native is going to be a revolution for mobile development. Not only will it succeed, it will get copied, and you'll have many variants of the same like-minded platform (open source, developer-oriented, low-barrier language).
Regarding the article, my point of view is that some points in this article are valid, but are trivially obvious:
- Javascript is Javascript, take it or leave it. Flow and Typescript is an evolution that to me looks good. It is one language that was adopted to be user-facing in React Native. According to Apple's Developer terms 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 only interpreted la
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nguages that run on JavascriptCore are allowed to be pushed to market.
- You can't know what the future holds. I was part of the Ruby community at the start, then Node, then Go. I was hard core into .NET, and before that Java. I saw platforms and technologies rise and fall, and was surprised over and over. I was much into Silverlight, a technology that Microsoft wanted to take over native development on the Web. Guess what happened to Silverlight? THAT was very nasty. We all know how that feels, but that's nothing to attribute just to React Native.
- Regarding patents: I believe we will have alternatives to React Native long-term, with the same properties but we'll still choose React Native :). However I also believe Facebook doesn't use patents in a bad way that the author hints at, as far as we know and as far as we've seen. I also met with core React Native developers, and they're awesome.
Practical advise: I'd suggest for the author to meet with the React Native core team.