> Is Facebook having a gazillion developers on their app a political problem, or necessary given what they want it to do? Yes. How is it not a political probl

> Is Facebook having a gazillion developers on their app a political problem, or necessary given what they want it to do? Yes. How is it not a political problem? It's not a technological one. > How is replicating that for each platform a good solution, in any sense (political or technical)? It doesn't change anything politically but technologically platform abstractions are never 100%. You always need an expert for each platform anyway and by targeting the abstraction rather than the platform you're just targeting a crappier experience for your end users and often your developers as well. React Native is not without it's issues. So what's the benefit? You're not saving expertise. Even sharing code isn't that important -- once decisions have been made, features planned out in detail, server APIs created, the actual platform specific code is a pretty small part overall. You still have to test on each platform individually. Fix platform specific bugs even in non-platform specific code. And you're not creating a dependency on a 3rd party that you don't control. > How is developers re-implementing every UI screen and feature across iOS and Android helping Shopify customers sell more merch? How is it not? I mean the argument here is that there is a huge savings to justify the risk but I don't think that's true.