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Just a hint: if you work for Ionic it's customary on HN to disclose that fact. Also: what makes a framework "native" for me is that it has it's own rendering s

• SemanticStrengh 4y ago
  I am not an Ionic employee, I have zero affiliation. I am a hobbyist in GUI rendering libraries technologies, which include Skia, blend2d, pathfinder, webrender, piet-gpu, etc > what makes a framework "native" for me is that it has it's own rendering stack lel, the point of react native is exactly that it doesn't have its own rendering stack, it defer rendering to external rendering stacks (android native lib, swift native lib) Flutter and the web are not native and are not different. They both have their own custom rendering stack, which allow them to improve it. flutter has not created its own 2d renderer btw, it uses the chromium 2D renderer named skia, in fact android native use the chromium 2D renderer since a few versions already. Simply because its the fastest to exist. > With webview solutions you are still facing cross platform inconsistencies crazy how reversed with reality your argument is. React native is by design inconsistent, it uses a separate library for each platform which result in an impedence mismatch of features, performance, and bugs. A webview has no inconsistencies between android and electron, it's the same chromium behind. Safari is slighly inconsistent (webkit) but order of magnitudes less than using a completely different library.