React Native made me give up a project today

Post by mwcampbell » Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 4:14 PM UTC

mike_hearn wrote: post #28

If you like the React style approach but want something a bit more self-contained, why not check out SwiftUI? Alternatively for Android, Jetpack Compose? Both toolkits are similar in style to React. If you're feeling brave (I guess not today) you could also try a Kotlin Multiplatform app, which lets you share code between Android, iOS and desktop or even use Jetpack Compose on iOS (but that's a road less travelled be…

Post by jamil7 » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:04 AM UTC

marstall wrote: post #80

jamil7 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Take, for example, native iOS development. For any dev, that involves regular bouts of multi-day configuration hell. Xcode is a huge beast and cryptic for beginners. Add in multiple third party libraries like firebase and it's a tossup which is harder, native or RN. Hard disagree here, to me this is one of the parts of native iOS development that is far, far better than web development. The web makes up for this wi…

I guess we had a different experience - perhaps it is better now. my experience with native development was around 2014 with the objectiveC to Swift transition and that was its own hell - but I remember spending a lot of time, maybe 20-30% of my time I would guess, staring down weird build errors.