With the utmost respect to the gargantuan levels of effort put in by hundreds of developers:
I've never worked with tools where I had to guess/pray every morning "Will my app compile and run today?" until I worked with React Native.
Seemingly randomly my apps would not build and I had to waste entire days chasing down random Github issues and comments in unrelated packages to get things running. I have never since experienced something like that either.
I'm thankful that I don't have to work with React Native anymore. Even my younger brother has given up and just bit the bullet to work exclusively with Swift natively for mobile apps.
> I've never worked with tools where I had to guess/pray every morning "Will my app compile and run today?" until I worked with React Native.
Happened to me building a Kivy Android app using Buildozer. That marked the end of my use of Kivy and Buildozer. I really want to use Python to build apps, but not as much as I want to not randomly have apps suddenly refusing to build out of the blue, and Kotlin is a damn nice language.
I've never worked with tools where I had to guess/pray every morning "Will my app compile and run today?" until I worked with React Native.
Seemingly randomly my apps would not build and I had to waste entire days chasing down random Github issues and comments in unrelated packages to get things running. I have never since experienced something like that either.
I'm thankful that I don't have to work with React Native anymore. Even my younger brother has given up and just bit the bullet to work exclusively with Swift natively for mobile apps.
Again, with all due respect. :pray: