I think in the end, we should just be writing some prototyping language, then let AI translate into target/native development language of the said platform.

Code and optimization is going to be a niche moving forward

Most large tech companies are just job programmes, i've seen so much effort, time, cost go into things that are truly unimportant.

React Native gives you (with asterisks) - one "source" for things to go wrong (as it sits on top of the native implementations of the UI + Native APIs). You are writing at that source level, and that filters down to the native builds. I am WELL aware to do certain things on each platform you need to get your hands dirty, but most apps are just serialising JSON from a database and displaying it.

AI writes very buggy, sloppy code.

They've decided - instead of containing that code to 1 surface, they would now have 2 surfaces they throw slop on top of.

I look forward to the 2027 version of this where they've gone back

In the history books, this'll be the post indicating the end of writing code as a professional occupation.

I'm still laughing.

This article makes more sense if you remove the self congratulatory verbiage from it, and the cost rationale which I believe is zero.

Most orgs used REACT native becuase they simply didnt have the interest or talent to build mobile apps using native tech. Many many companies outsource the entire thing for the same reason.

So NOW that its been many years, and LLMs are there to help them they arent simply AFRAID to build a native mobile app anymore.

Thats the entire article. The rest is utter nonsense and bullshit.

Isn't it silly that this even needs to be a conversation? Shouldn't we be able to write in any language we want and have the bindings for it to work cross platform? And shouldn't AI aid in building those cross-platform tools?

Maybe React Native isn't the right choice - but two tech stacks for virtually identical interfaces is dumb. Three stacks if you include browsers.

Its interesting that the move is back to native and not towards a technology better suited to delivering the same experience on multiple devices from one codebase.

In my limited experience, in h2 this year, LLMs were kind of shit at building Mobile apps. I had to switch TO react native because the flutter app it built me was a horrible buggy mess and I couldn't debug it myself because I don't speak dart. At least with react native I can kind of get in the weeds if needed

I'm certain that small startup Shopify could not afford to build native applications before AI became a thing. Thank god Sam Altman stole all the information in the world so that small family companies like this can finally have software too.

Does that mean no more react native skia sponsoring?