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Literally none of that stuff needs a platform specific framework and toolchain. I'm not arguing that F web views, Flutter or React Native would have been better
by underwater 6y ago
Literally none of that stuff needs a platform specific framework and toolchain. I'm not arguing that F
web views, Flutter or React Native would have been better. I'm arguing that the fact that there isn't a good cross platform solution is evidence the ecosystem is messed up.
FWIW the Facebook example is not necessarily generalisable. The original Facebook app was a thin wrapper around the existing mobile web site. It was a leaky and poorly designed abstraction that was fundamentally flawed.
- azinman2 6y agoFacebook used react native for a while, which isn’t a web view wrapper, and then went away from that towards native: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/02/data-infrastructure/messenger/ https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/02/data-infrastructure/me... So far the only actual success I’ve seen is electron on the desktop, and in that world everyone complains how apps use huge amounts of RAM. There’s only one true success for a generic solution across all platforms: the web. Because it doesn’t pretend to integrate natively, nor depend on native APIs. But with it will always come limitations that cannot be avoided.