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I downloaded the app to try it. It's interesting, appears that you can join a game with other players? I see two tabs: "4 starting" and "12 active" But clickin
by xrd 2y ago
I downloaded the app to try it. It's interesting, appears that you can join a game with other players? I see two tabs: "4 starting" and "12 active" But clicking on these had no effect until suddenly the overflow broke rendering.
I am fascinated by this app mostly because it has a recruiting message at the bottom from Jane Street. I've never seen that before.
But, it's also interesting because it is one of the more poorly designed apps I've seen. It's react native when you check out the logs using adb. I bet this was a side project from a Jane Street employee. They did their best.
- _fat_santa 2y agoGiven that Jane Street's prowess is in OCaml, I'm more inclined to give them grace when trying to release a React Native app. RN is one of those languages/frameworks that is both very easy to get into and also incredibly difficult to make a polished app.
- 999900000999 2y agoRN barely works even if you're an experienced JS dev. Something is just messed up with it, maybe it's fixed now but 2 weeks ago I tried to build an Expo app and the default template just doesn't build on android. Known issue on GitHub. Everything is jerryrigged together. Flutter is what RN should of been, but Google doesn't seem to really care about it. Why one company needs multi cross platform frameworks, with multiple languages... I'll never know.
- xrd 2y agoI agree about RN. But not about flutter. I just used aider to code a brand new flutter app from scratch. It has Google login. And a webview on a second screen. It looks gorgeous and is performant. And deploying it to my android device from within the aider session worked flawlessly.
- 999900000999 2y agohttps://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from-flutter-dart-python-weeks-before-its-developer-conference/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from... Google did a major cut to its flutter team last year. It's a great framework, I've used it for several projects. But I doubt it's future...
- xrd 2y agoOk, I'm glad you mentioned that you have used it in the past. I have not, have only done RN and plain Android using java and kotlin. Your comments are spot on. Thank you.
- HelloNurse 2y agoReact Native is easy to be tempted into using. It's clever in all the wrong ways, from opaquely ad hoc code transformations to a perennial flux of unfinished transitions between old and new designs for the same things; it's popular and from Facebook; it does its job well enough to convince many developers that malfunctions, bugs and general misery are either an accident or their fault, they just need to hack a little.
- pjmlp 2y agoFrom the screenshots this is the kind of stuff that could have been a Web game.
- infecto 2y agoInteresting, works fine for me on both mobile and web. I am sure there are bugs in it but of the few games I played it worked fine though I imagine live is a much better experience when it comes to live bidding. But overall this is a fairly common recruiting tool for firms like this, Jane Street is a definite outlier in how proactive they are but its not out of the norm for these this type of top tier org.