Why not flutter?

This is probably one of the things that excites me most about AI.

Companies can now just afford to maintain a hundred different native apps, rather than settle for a write once, run anywhere approach.

Thanks to coding agents, there is no reason not to

I mean it sounds nice but they never say _why_. "AI removes a lot of the burden" is not a _why_. I was hoping to read about some of the shortcomings of React Native, but it seems like they're doing it just because they can. I remember Airbnb had a post about switching off of React Native years ago that actually had some solid reasoning behind it.

oh fuck my life, we're back to this circa 2000 default of having incompatible binary UIs frameworks across various different platforms, with different OEMs shitting the bed at various different times and Apple free to arbitrarily force its hardware and OS into CI. I felt we were so close to unification in 2011.

And that's not even discussing the heresy of app stores. Curse smartphones for ever happening.

Native. Metal. Remove the abatraction layers

the end of Electron would be a nice silver lining to the new era of coding

Shopify always comes up but I do t know much about it. Do I interact with Shopify sites without knowing they are Shopify?

The article itself comes from AI ? It says twice why they switched from Native to React Native in two distinct paragraphs at the beginning. The rest sounds also AI slop jargon.

i think many ppl don't understand this news

IMHO...

if you have a large org, a large app, lots of revenue and $$$ and resources...

it makes sense to do fully native now.

if you're a startup, you don't have the resources and $$$, you stick to RN

you can obviously have AI maintain both, but that is a cost. double maintenance = more $$$ on tokens

so many people are being doomer about this, but most people are also not Shopify