Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Realm 1.0

realm.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

111–112 of 112 posts

Re: Realm 1.0

#111

Post by appden »

dcosson wrote: post #72

Just curious, why is there no Realm support for web & mobile web using localstorage? It seems like that could be useful, to re-use your model/data tier between react native and a react web app.

That would be really neat, but the core technology of Realm is written in native code. Somebody in the community could certainly create a Realm-like API for web local storage. If you (or anyone else reading this) is interested in building it, I would suggest building it on top of localForage (https://github.com/mozilla/localforage), and definitely hit me up if you'd like to further discuss implementation details!

Re: Realm 1.0

#112

Post by flipgimble »

SandyAndyPerth wrote: post #105
mwcampbell wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, OK. I always assumed that the core was closed-source for business reasons.

It's a LOT of work to open-source something which has been evolving at a huge pace and is as complex as the Realm core. Even just announcing the work of the Xamarin C# team that I'm on got some complaints from the public about this representing a "loss of focus". So yes, you could say there was a "business reason" of protecting the core team whilst they got to 1.0. If you look at the C++ portions included in most of…

I don't believe that complexity or size of code really affects the difficulty of open sourcing a project. Its more likely the culture and daily development practices that are difficult to change, but probably not as difficult as the business strategy we're all wondering about.
Post reply on HN