On: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

[symlinkk]

Facebook? Instagram? Airbnb? We're talking about some of the most popular apps in the world. What exactly is your problem with them?

[kllrnohj → symlinkk]

Facebook app also has huge chunks of platform-native code, it's why they also have things like Litho: https://fblitho.com/

And according to their announcement post Litho is what they are using for their News Feed: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1187475984695956/open-sourci...

So the most critical part of the Facebook app isn't in React Native. How much of those other apps are actually using React Native?

[Benjammer → symlinkk]

I mean, do you realize that most of the big names on that list have a hybrid solution where they prove concepts, A/B test, and rapidly iterate-on/release new features using React Native, and then they have a native dev team for each platform that goes back and re-implements most of the core features natively?

[prophesi → Benjammer]

Discord is the most impressive one to me. They definitely didn't have those resources when they wrote their iOS app[0].

The Android version is just RxJava, iirc, because of some performance issues they couldn't get around.

[0] https://blog.discordapp.com/using-react-native-one-year-late...

[realusername → prophesi]

At that time when they released, the React Native Android was probably still in a kind of beta state.

[raydev → realusername]

RN Android still feels like beta.

[tazard → raydev]

How so? I run into the occasional hiccup an iOS and Android, but overall both have been pretty smooth for me.

[briandear → Benjammer]

That’s correct. AirBnB’s iOS app is written mostly in Swift. And Facebook’s iOS app is a piece of shit performance wise.

[jcelerier → symlinkk]

they are the most popular because they are needed to access a service. But they are all a fucking pain to use.

[symlinkk → jcelerier]

How are they a "fucking pain to use"? I have never heard an average person complain about Instagram's UI. It's fine. It's good, even.

[int_handler → jcelerier]

Can you give some examples of popular apps that are not "a fucking pain to use?"

[saagarjha → symlinkk]

None of those are apps that I'd hold up as paragons of UI design…