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Posted by fnthawar2 1 day ago

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin(shopify.engineering)
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hollowturtle 19 hours ago|
Does that mean no more react native skia sponsoring?
mt_ 1 day ago||
The article failed to provide reasons on they why move back to native.
mt_ 1 day ago|
Other than LLMs can do it tokenmaxxing exercise.
seydor 11 hours ago||
Hey what about Flutter
ex-aws-dude 1 day ago||
I don’t understand why building an app twice is a big deal in the first place if that’s a core part of your business

Like wouldn’t you want to invest in platform specific expertise long term?

It’s not like this is a small company or it’s just a dinky side project off of the main business

BatchJob 1 day ago||
im not a fan of react native per se , but this reasoning does not add up.

they are going to "delete an app" because they got some LLM to slop out 2 apps?

The architect who wrote that is batshit and will be unemployed after this blows up in his face.

jan_m_savage 15 hours ago||
The move to native makes sense.

Also, human developers and AI make different types of mistakes, and take different approaches to debugging. I'm not saying they shouldn't have done that, it's just that a more human-involved approach with AI filling the gaps would probably be a saner bet than 90% AI with some human interference.

Here's an example of why:

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/recursion-into-madness

epolanski 7 hours ago||
> Shopify has been using LLMs to build software since 2021

Odd banter. So did anybody using GitHub copilot which was in technical preview back then?

busymom0 15 hours ago||
I develop iOS and Android apps and all the apps I have in App/Play Store are native. I did try React Native a few years ago but I just didn’t like how much extra bloat I had to include as third party dependencies.

Plus now with iPhone Duo which has so much variation in layout, I don’t think React Native would work well for it.

perarneng 11 hours ago|
Why not flutter?
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