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Didn't Xamarin compile the C# to native? Isn't this an apples to oranges comparison?
by junto 11y ago
Didn't Xamarin compile the C# to native? Isn't this an apples to oranges comparison?
- moonchrome 11y agoI'm not talking about execution performance - I'm talking faster to develop for. It might be faster to get "hello world" running in JS but once you have a few people working on a project and need to do nontrivial stuff not provided by "JS framework X" (in this case React) you'll see the value of having sane language semantics, static typing, tools and a mature ecosystem (much higher quality than JS).
- iLoch 11y agoThese tools exist in Javacript. I'm not saying C# is inferior at all, but JS is not inferior to C# here. TypeScript/Flow are backwards compatible with JS so you can add static typing to your JS at any time. React Native is capable of doing anything a native runtime can do because it too is native. High quality tools do now exist that bring type checking, Intellisense, hot module replacement, etc.