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> I'm confused - is this meant to be a disbelief of the survey? "quickly followed by"? Are we seeing the same thing? Did you see the %s? It is significantly lower. Of course there are Xamarin and Cordova developers still. Especially in Asia.

Oh, I'm sure there are many of them! Just as there are many Visual Basic developers, or people who do everything in Excel.

> So wait years and see how everything plays out? So basically you have no solution. Clearly the issues were pressing enough that they needed a more immediate solution. A solution they thought was worth re attempting despite its previous failures.

No, my solution to the problem would be to rewrite from scratch in native, without waiting for Compose/SwiftUI.

But for some reason it is so much easier to justify rewrite in X, because if it was written in Y, than of course Y is to blame for our shitty practices and lack of developer culture. They neglected best practices, piled crap upon crap and somehow it is native toolkit that is to blame.



Yea so your react native is dead argument is bs. You clarified it later saying you meant for complex projects but in another comment you claim that they're just a crypto dashboard. So which is it? Do they have a complex project (not a dashboard) and need something more than react native or they're a dashboard app and react native is fine? The things you say don't line up.\

> But for some reason it is so much easier to justify rewrite in X, because if it was written in Y, than of course Y is to blame for our shitty practices and lack of developer culture. They neglected best practices, piled crap upon crap and somehow it is native toolkit that is to blame.

Is it really incomprehensible that there's a valid reason to rewrite in X? Now you claim they have shitty practices and no developer culture? What did coinbase do to you? Have you worked there? Did you see their "crap" code? If you don't have anything to back it up, I'll add it to your bs list.


> Yea so your react native is dead argument is bs.

How so?

>You clarified it later saying you meant for complex projects but in another comment you claim that they're just a crypto dashboard.

Do I really need to chew everything for you? Crypto dashboard means that they have boring product, I never said it was simple or complex.

> So which is it? Do they have a complex project (not a dashboard) and need something more than react native or they're a dashboard app and react native is fine? The things you say don't line up.\

Native of course! With native applications you won't have issues like dangling shadow, or application being restarted under your nose when you open privacy policy. And I didn't even look at memory consumption and CPU utilization yet.

> Is it really incomprehensible that there's a valid reason to rewrite in X?

Nope, I can imagine that their use case is valid. But for a wrong reasons.

> Now you claim they have shitty practices and no developer culture?

Easy! If React Native application is more performant than your native application, then something really, really, reaaaaally wrong happened. And technology is the last to blame in this case.

> What did coinbase do to you? Have you worked there? Did you see their "crap" code?

What makes you think that if I criticize their technology choice, I have something against them?

> If you don't have anything to back it up, I'll add it to your bs list.

Lol.




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