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Are you saying that all the non-native mobile frameworks are abysmal because they have to map to JNI calls on Android and Objective-C/Swift on iOS?

• pjmlp 3y ago
  They are abysmal, because they are leaky, yes. The dream of one code base to rule them all, can easily turn into a nightmare when going outside the golden path. And really, a large majority of apps are doing basic CRUD stuff, easily doable as mobile Web.
  • ngrilly 3y ago
    Agreed. Yet, I think the one code base approach gives better results on desktop (Windows/macOS/Linux) than mobile. VS Code for example is quite nice. Do you think this is because there are more OS and UI differences between Android and iOS than between Windows/macOS/Linux? Desktop is more "standardized"?
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      Desktop is also as different, most people sidestep it by only caring about POSIX, or shipping a Web browser with the application.