On: Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

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Go back in time and read the react-native vs native debates. Many react advocates claimed otherwise

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Time and progress have overtaken them. At the time they were likely correct but I certainly wouldn’t bother with react native any more when the LLMs have gotten so good

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What was the claimed advantage of react-native aside from ease of use?