> that they can just get "web" technology and speedup mobile development. RN isn't really web technology. It is a JS engine along side a cross platform API tra

> that they can just get "web" technology and speedup mobile development. RN isn't really web technology. It is a JS engine along side a cross platform API translates API calls to the appropriate underlying native platform code. UI components rendered by RN do not use web tech at all. It is no different than Xamarine in that regard, and has many of the same drawbacks. > AirBNB's app is barely usable on two-year-old androids. I never had problems with it on my Nexus 5x, and everything was a lag fest on that phone. (Lag in daily use got so bad after moving to Android 8 that I had to get a new phone just for my sanity.) For a large # of apps, RN works just fine. Its real promise is not "web technology", so far as it is 99% code sharing across platforms. The other players in this market don't have the same community drive that RN does, so people gravitate towards RN.