Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent • Hacker News Board

rat9988 wrote: post #15

gigatexal wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Chinese state perhaps including backdoors to spy on users?

I guess we should do the same about any open source project. I don't know a state who has proven to be reliable.

Any state could spy on users but china is known to blatantly do so.

Re: Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent

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Post by wnscooke » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 11:44 AM UTC

rat9988 wrote: post #15

gigatexal wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Chinese state perhaps including backdoors to spy on users?

I guess we should do the same about any open source project. I don't know a state who has proven to be reliable.

The naivity is astounding. The West's slow but sure efforts to equalize everything and everyone has also affected peoples' ability to discern actual threats. In a slightly more positive wording, the openness of the West is going to be its undoing, as its people and leaders can't conceive that other countries, other peoples, other worldviews aren't like theirs and want to overthrow them and subjugate them, and not exist in harmony because "all are equally valid".

Re: Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent

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Post by tirpen » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 12:04 PM UTC

shrimpx wrote: post #16

rat9988 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess we should do the same about any open source project. I don't know a state who has proven to be reliable.

Any state could spy on users but china is known to blatantly do so.

To be fair, so is the US (NSA) , but people rarely suggest that packages from the US should be monitored extra closely for some reason.

Of course every package used in any code that contains sensitive data should be audited along with its dependant, but I see no reason to be more afraid of this particular package than anything people happily install from npm.

Re: Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent

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Post by dnate » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 12:06 PM UTC

Jarred wrote: post #7

yonibot wrote: post #2

Looks like they haven't put up much documentation yet - hard to say what this is really. How do you work with different platforms? How does the performance compare to React Native? Can we see examples? What APIs exist to access native functionalities? How complete is the Flex implementation?

I dug around a little and installed their demo app in the iOS simulator: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hl3nk8jrcjleurj/hippy.mov?dl=0 . Visually, the only interesting part of the demo app is the RefreshWrapper example Code-wise, the most interesting things I've seen: - They expose wrappers for native recycling list views[0]. React Native does this in JavaScript through VirtualizedList, however some have experienced perfo…

> - It uses a closed-source fork of libv8 on Android called X5[6].

this makes my spidey senses tingle. What might be hidden there?

Re: Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent

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Post by vertex-four » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 12:23 PM UTC

wnscooke wrote: post #17

rat9988 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess we should do the same about any open source project. I don't know a state who has proven to be reliable.

The naivity is astounding. The West's slow but sure efforts to equalize everything and everyone has also affected peoples' ability to discern actual threats. In a slightly more positive wording, the openness of the West is going to be its undoing, as its people and leaders can't conceive that other countries, other peoples, other worldviews aren't like theirs and want to overthrow them and subjugate them, and not exi…

Our Government wants to subjugate us. So do a number of “friendly states”.