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OK interesting - but why?
by lucasyvas 5y ago
OK interesting - but why?
- jollybean 5y agoProbably because the devs want to do something and have no properly useful tools available to them, so they use something out of convenience. It feels a bit tacky to me that Apple would use something a bit janky, it points at a bit of a gap in tooling.
- est 5y agoLooks like it's Apple's Internet offerings, which is a growing number of services which makes perfect sense to write them inside a server updatable webview.
- 8note 5y agoReact is enjoyable to use?
- lucasyvas 5y agoAs a web developer that primarily codes in React for the last 5 years, I strongly disagree. I use it because of the ecosystem and I think everyone does. It's not that fast, and it's quite verbose. That's besides the point though, because I doubt Apple chose React because they "enjoyed" it here. I like web tech but I also think it's not worth it for this use case (even if it is shared with the web). What naturally happens is you start asking "well if we did it for that, why not for this?" Sooner or later it invades the system. I've worked on desktop apps where the same thing happened where webviews were not truly needed. I don't have a hate for it in general, but Apple was extremely strong in native UI so I would have liked to see them try to stick to that, even if it meant coding it twice.