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Wow, thanks, we appreciate the vote of confidence! It is interesting to think about the possible performance gains to be had running JS in the browser rather t

Wow, thanks, we appreciate the vote of confidence! It is interesting to think about the possible performance gains to be had running JS in the browser rather than in a detached JS engine. For example, WKWebView on iOS has access to the full JIT-ed JS engine on iOS, while JavaScriptCore does not (as I understand it).

The_rationalist 7y ago
The challenge for your marketing is to educate people and to update their beliefs. It would be nice if you ran public benchmarcks of two equivalent app one in Ionic, one in RN (and eventually more (flutter, etc)) If you are empirically the fastest (maybe we will need to wait a few chromium milestones or to manually enable Vulkan) You could market those numbers by showing you are the first to have Vulkan rendering, HTTP3, CSS contains, dom fragments, etc (I believe Microsoft is working on moving chromium input handling out of the main thread) And if you showed things you can't do/easily do in react native. For example backdrop-filter has recently been added to chromium and is the future of UX. https://ferdychristant.com/please-help-make-backdrop-filter-a-reality-f81805ba3d52 https://ferdychristant.com/please-help-make-backdrop-filter-... But really there's so many features that you offer and others don't! OpenXR, SVG support, css width auto, css grid, etc If you want an exhaustive list: https://www.chromestatus.com/features https://www.chromestatus.com/features Really if react native was on https://caniuse.com/ https://caniuse.com/ people would see the truth (the feature gap). Your marketing also could just make visualizations about the gap in size between the ionic ecosystem (more plugins than RN + all npm packages) vs RN npm packages, that would show the order of magnitude of order of magnitude difference and so how many billions of dollars of man/hours developpers miss by choosing RN. Unrelated: I hope that you are aware of the cordova maintenance issue https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/163#issuecomment-542432768 https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/163#issuecomment-54... And capacitor won't be a true successor until it will have full compatibility with prior cordova plugins.

The_rationalist 7y ago

The challenge for your marketing is to educate people and to update their beliefs. It would be nice if you ran public benchmarcks of two equivalent app one in Ionic, one in RN (and eventually more (flutter, etc)) If you are empirically the fastest (maybe we will need to wait a few chromium milestones or to manually enable Vulkan) You could market those numbers by showing you are the first to have Vulkan rendering, HTTP3, CSS contains, dom fragments, etc (I believe Microsoft is working on moving chromium input handling out of the main thread) And if you showed things you can't do/easily do in react native. For example backdrop-filter has recently been added to chromium and is the future of UX. https://ferdychristant.com/please-help-make-backdrop-filter-a-reality-f81805ba3d52 https://ferdychristant.com/please-help-make-backdrop-filter-... But really there's so many features that you offer and others don't! OpenXR, SVG support, css width auto, css grid, etc If you want an exhaustive list: https://www.chromestatus.com/features https://www.chromestatus.com/features Really if react native was on https://caniuse.com/ https://caniuse.com/ people would see the truth (the feature gap). Your marketing also could just make visualizations about the gap in size between the ionic ecosystem (more plugins than RN + all npm packages) vs RN npm packages, that would show the order of magnitude of order of magnitude difference and so how many billions of dollars of man/hours developpers miss by choosing RN. Unrelated: I hope that you are aware of the cordova maintenance issue https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/163#issuecomment-542432768 https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/163#issuecomment-54... And capacitor won't be a true successor until it will have full compatibility with prior cordova plugins.