Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
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Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
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Re: Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
#2We don’t hold on to a decision just because it was successful at the time. When a core assumption changes, we’re willing to go back and ask whether it’s still the right call. LLMs changed one of the core assumptions behind our 2020 decision, so we reevaluated our mobile stack from first principles.
What we found led us back to native.
Re: Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
#3We don’t hold on to a decision just because it was successful at the time. When a core assumption changes, we’re willing to go back and ask whether it’s still the right call. LLMs changed one of the core assumptions behind our 2020 decision, so we reevaluated our mobile stack from first principles. What we found led us back to native.
I suspect we'll see a lot of large orgs doing this in the next year.
Re: Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
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Re: Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
#5We don’t hold on to a decision just because it was successful at the time. When a core assumption changes, we’re willing to go back and ask whether it’s still the right call. LLMs changed one of the core assumptions behind our 2020 decision, so we reevaluated our mobile stack from first principles. What we found led us back to native.
Any education required for engineers to switch to native or the agents are handling the details on their own? Wondering if architecture or the new languages require ramp up.
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#7I believe this will be overall trend in industry. Dropping React Native and Flutter for native
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#8The wheel of fashion turns once more.
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#9Cool story but what's the token spend?
Re: Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
#10We don’t hold on to a decision just because it was successful at the time. When a core assumption changes, we’re willing to go back and ask whether it’s still the right call. LLMs changed one of the core assumptions behind our 2020 decision, so we reevaluated our mobile stack from first principles. What we found led us back to native.
Yes, AI have changed the game, and now you can build and maintain two separate projects in Swift & Kotlin instead of one on React