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There are some long term trends that should work in React Native’s favor. The pace of mobile changes is slowing and will probably slow further. This is the usu
by babesh 5y ago
There are some long term trends that should work in React Native’s favor.
The pace of mobile changes is slowing and will probably slow further. This is the usual case of an initial innovation transitioning to incremental improvements. This means that React will eventually catch up or come close to catching up with mobile developments (if they have enough technical expertise to do so).
Competition has consolidated the market into two platforms. This means that only two platforms need to be supported.
Due to competition between iOS and Android, the two platforms are undergoing convergent evolution. This will also make it easier to support the two platforms since new features will be similar.
- pixel_tracing 5y agoYou couldn’t be further from the truth. Mobile is undergoing a substantial evolution in development experience. SwiftUI and Compose are changing the development world for Mobile. The compiler itself is being optimized to show UI with hot reloading.
- babesh 5y agoI think SwiftUI is just as much about platform lock-in by bundling Mac, AppleTV, iPad, and iPhone together as an app fortress. Furthermore it enforces more standard UI/UX which commoditizes apps. Stepping back, I think we are just seeing a battle of commoditizing your complements. For Coinbase and Facebook, Apple is the complement. For Apple, Coinbase and Facebook are the complement.
- pixel_tracing 5y agoYou are vendor locked in regardless whether you build it in RN or SwiftUI or compose - you are still building a mobile app and any serious mobile app will need some degree of native integration. Better to make it natively than to support an extra platform which is RN.