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Re: How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

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tov_objorkin wrote: post #89
tracker1 wrote: post #82

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May want to also look at MS/Xamarin development, I know a few people that really like it. Though, RN seems a bit more popular. For that matter, in what ways is JS unpredictable? Generally combined with Redux or something similar, I've found it to be fairly consistent and predicatble.

About five years ago i have a dream, that i can abandon all this peasant C/C++ development and jump into mono/xamarin train. As a main product we have Linux ARM/MIPS karaoke machine with optional remote control via desktop/mobile apps. The idea was to use same code every where. - Tooling for Linux was horrible, like really! - Alien mobile UI look and feel - One can not simple build mobile app for desktop. - New shiny…

I was thinking in the context of mobile.. TBH, depending on my needs, I'd probably just fallback to an electron app for desktop at this point. Not good for lighter systems though.

.Net doesn't force Azure/Cloud at all. I know all the MS demos tend in that direction, but you can absolutely use it all internally. I've worked on several backends targeting docker and linux with .Net core at this point. Even ARM as a target is decent. GUI, no idea on that, I tend to prefer react+redux+material-ui there.

Re: How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

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tov_objorkin wrote: post #102
tracker1 wrote: post #82

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May want to also look at MS/Xamarin development, I know a few people that really like it. Though, RN seems a bit more popular. For that matter, in what ways is JS unpredictable? Generally combined with Redux or something similar, I've found it to be fairly consistent and predicatble.

About JS, i made wrong assumption that we entered v8 era and my number crunching code should work reasonable fast everywhere.

Gotcha... depending on size/scale of numbers, Python is probably the only general purpose scripting language I would trust for that (though don't actually use Python, it's not what I work on).

Re: How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

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Post by MarkMc »

eropple wrote: post #76
rsynnott wrote: post #13

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Swift will also work on Windows, and of course on MacOS (and Linux). If you prefer, you could use Kotlin in a similar role via kotlin-native.

But Swift won't work on Android. And Kotlin Native is severely compromised. The lingua franca options are effectively Xamarin, Flutter, and React Native. Xamarin's dev experience sucks and Flutter's perf isn't much different from React Native with a way less mature ecosystem. There are people who should write platform-native mobile apps. For everybody else, React Native is fine . And, for my money, TypeScript is the…

Genuinely curious: In what way is Kotlin Native severely compromised?

Re: How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

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rrdharan wrote: post #77
eropple wrote: post #76

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But Swift won't work on Android. And Kotlin Native is severely compromised. The lingua franca options are effectively Xamarin, Flutter, and React Native. Xamarin's dev experience sucks and Flutter's perf isn't much different from React Native with a way less mature ecosystem. There are people who should write platform-native mobile apps. For everybody else, React Native is fine . And, for my money, TypeScript is the…

Doesn’t QT belong on your list? Or am I missing something?

I'm not writing mobile applications in C++.

Re: How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

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MarkMc wrote: post #113
eropple wrote: post #76

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But Swift won't work on Android. And Kotlin Native is severely compromised. The lingua franca options are effectively Xamarin, Flutter, and React Native. Xamarin's dev experience sucks and Flutter's perf isn't much different from React Native with a way less mature ecosystem. There are people who should write platform-native mobile apps. For everybody else, React Native is fine . And, for my money, TypeScript is the…

Genuinely curious: In what way is Kotlin Native severely compromised?

The reason, to me, to use Kotlin is to leverage the JVM without having to write Java or Scala. When you don't have the decades of quality JVM libraries there, I don't see much value in Kotlin, outside of high-performance applications that I don't need to write on mobile. Instead I can write TypeScript--and while I don't hate Kotlin, I quite like TypeScript--without having to constantly screw with marshaling between the native/UI layer and Kotlin Native.
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