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My point was not about the details, but about the uncertain nature of an open source project driven by a company. The patent issue is just one of the "symptoms"

My point was not about the details, but about the uncertain nature of an open source project driven by a company. The patent issue is just one of the "symptoms" of this problem. When someone open sources their technology and adds a set of detailed clauses that adds some restriction (doesn't matter if it's a "real" restriction or not), it means they couldn't go all out. It also means as a user, you do have reasons to be cautious about it, not because of what the license says in detail, but because of the reason behind the behavior. But anyway, this patent issue is just one part of the larger issue, which is uncertainty. When Apple or Android changes the API policy in the future, you'll be struggling to adapt to the new reality with what you have. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. Currently it does make sense for some people to build using react native, but if I were you, I would rather learn Android. Really, if you already have iOS experience, a lot of the paradigm is pretty similar and it won't be super difficult to learn. This "cross platform" concept used to be valuable maybe in 2010 when it wasn't clear what mobile platforms would be dominant (with windows phones, blackberries, and even samsung launching their own developer platforms). But it's 2016 now, and we're pretty sure it's either iOS or Android. All you need is just those two platforms.

chii 10y ago
> pretty sure it's either iOS or Android. it's web, android, iOS, and PC. That's 4 platforms, if you consider web and PC separate, and more if you consider windows and linux as separate. Crossplatform is more valuable than ever. But react-native may not be the answer.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
  The context of this entire thread was about mobile ecosystem. The concept of "cross platform" only holds when you're comparing two similar ones
  - chii 10y ago
    the whole premise (that i m sold on react-native) is that it lets you use code from your react app and run it natively. And the concept of cross-platform is not only for "similar" platforms like mobile, but across disparate platforms, like mobile AND PC. Otherwise, what's the point of cross-platform?
    - cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
      As I said, that's not what people mean when they talk about "cross platform" in this context. Go to phonegap and see if they support PC. Cross platform means you should write once and it works everywhere without modifying anything, just like the web. But you can't be cross platform AND native on completely different types of platforms, since each has its own distinct feature sets. You are free to believe whatever you want but that doesn't really mean anything since you're basically arguing about something that I'm not even talking about.
      - tracker1 10y ago
        And that means that ReactNative is better than phonegap! ;-) I'm not completely sold on ReactNative compared to Phonegap and Electron as targets with React web... however, I can indeed see the appeal.

chii 10y ago

> pretty sure it's either iOS or Android. it's web, android, iOS, and PC. That's 4 platforms, if you consider web and PC separate, and more if you consider windows and linux as separate. Crossplatform is more valuable than ever. But react-native may not be the answer.

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
The context of this entire thread was about mobile ecosystem. The concept of "cross platform" only holds when you're comparing two similar ones
- chii 10y ago
  the whole premise (that i m sold on react-native) is that it lets you use code from your react app and run it natively. And the concept of cross-platform is not only for "similar" platforms like mobile, but across disparate platforms, like mobile AND PC. Otherwise, what's the point of cross-platform?
  - cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
    As I said, that's not what people mean when they talk about "cross platform" in this context. Go to phonegap and see if they support PC. Cross platform means you should write once and it works everywhere without modifying anything, just like the web. But you can't be cross platform AND native on completely different types of platforms, since each has its own distinct feature sets. You are free to believe whatever you want but that doesn't really mean anything since you're basically arguing about something that I'm not even talking about.
    - tracker1 10y ago
      And that means that ReactNative is better than phonegap! ;-) I'm not completely sold on ReactNative compared to Phonegap and Electron as targets with React web... however, I can indeed see the appeal.