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npo9 | 6 years ago

You say that like writing plugins is hard or undesirable.

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That's what I don't understand when people criticize frameworks like React Native... "I didn't like that I had to build 15% of the app in native code, so I ditched RN and now have to write 100% of the app in native code, but twice and in two different languages"?

greatjack613|6 years ago

It is a heck lot easier to stick to 1 language with no plugins, then 3 languages with plugins for every native feature

wdb|6 years ago

Well, React Native always gets a bit advertised as you don't need to know any native programming knowledge but that's not true. That's what I tried to say.

tilolebo|6 years ago

React Native isn't the only abstraction out there. You could use Flutter, Ionic or similar.

Or do they have the same issue?

seanalltogether|6 years ago

> JavaScript developers are cheap to hire, and they don't need to know any objc/swift/java/kotlin to build the product.

OP is pretty much saying that.

harrisonjackson|6 years ago

Exactly - this is native code that would need to be written either way, right?