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What is a huge company?

Here is an example of a team that is doing great work in mobile, frontend and backend:

3 people doing native iOS, 2 people doing native Android, 3 backend engineers, 1 frontend and 1 QA.

Two engineering managers/team leaders: one for mobile and one for web.

Of course this is one single product offering native mobile apps and some limited web app functionalities.

The apps are great, smooth, nice UX, works fast, offers native experience.

Is this a huge company? I don't think so.




But you could also have 2 people working on React Native and have 1 person each for getting it to play nice with iOS/Android, and eliminate the need for an extra engineer.


And end up with a subpar product because of your decision to use terrible tech that can't hold 60 FPS while scrolling a list


Well, if React native is anything like the many react websites, then this isn't too far off actually. "modern" websites can already send your CPU puffing, when you hover over some element with your mouse pointer and it triggers some JS emulated style for :hover.


tss.. some people dont like being reminded that their favourite tech performs worse on an Nvidia 3090 than Winforms did on 800 mhz cpu running windows 98




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