> Instant redeploy is very nice but hardly a huge deciding factor. I think you're wrong on this one. A large number of devs care about dev experience at the ex

> Instant redeploy is very nice but hardly a huge deciding factor. I think you're wrong on this one. A large number of devs care about dev experience at the expense of other important things like platform maturity, reliability, and security. I don't agree with many of Steve's points in his post, but I do agree on this point. Both factors - x-platform development and instant redeploy - have contributed significantly to React Native's success so far. Indeed, if it weren't so important, I wouldn't expect Google to invest as much time and money as it did in getting Instant Run to work correctly (like others said, it was buggy as all hell when it first landed in Studio's stable channel and only became usable after many months). The fact that Flutter advertises "stateful hot reloading" prominently is just more evidence that it's important for attracting devs.