It is the "why use python" for mobile.

The native apps will definitely be better in terms of performance and UX. However, having 2 codebases means twice the tokens.

This thread is very depressing. Web dev bootcamps and product managers have done untold damage to the field of software engineering. And it's our own faults. We had it so good for so long. There was a period of time when programmers were the new "rockstars" (for better or worse). We should have used that respect and those resources to unionise and build some kind of institution responsible for teaching, mentoring, standards, etc - a software engineering guild of some sorts.

Quality is, was and always will be job one. There's obviously a place for AI tools (providing the economy doesn't melt), but can we please just slow down for a second and think about what we're actually doing?

If they play this right, they can do much more than just ecom and move into agentic templates and start selling slack and jira templates

Yea, I have started using c++ for some of the stuffs previously used python for. When agents is doing the grunt work, better to go even closer to machine.

With latest AI models, we will most likely see shift back to just fully Native apps even for smaller teams. This is type of stuff that AI models do really well, if you get a particular feature or even a bigger app change done in one platform, you can just tell Opus or Fable to replicate to the other platforms and in almost all cases it will just do it as well as most human teams would have done it.

Technology historians will pin 2026 as the year frameworks died.

when you are large enough to allocate sufficient resource, you should go native, if not, go flutter/react native etc. Its very simple decisions I guess.

Maybe cross platform devkits would not be choosed only becauseof development cost.

Lol, they bought Tailwind CSS, freaked out, and decided not to touch it at all.