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Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer by dahdum on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:00PM (#12593159)
Unless I'm wrong, the only listed alternatives are both paid and closed source. Xamarin (requires VS Pro) or Appcelerate (requires $480-$1200/year/developer).
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Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer by matwood on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:11PM (#12593259)
I believe Xamarin is now free post the MS acquisition with various parts and pieces even becoming open source:

https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/

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Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer by dahdum on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:14PM (#12594093)
I was actually looking here: https://store.xamarin.com/

Apparently the free version has usage restrictions? I do consider free w/ Visual Studio Pro license not really free.

EDIT: The licensing pages are confusing but you're right, my mistake.

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Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer by romanovcode on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @05:35AM (#12596439)
No, it's completely free with VS Community (which is also free). And you don't have to pay if your company has 5 or less people working on it. You also have to pay if you have 250+ computers/people employed or your revenue is 1m+/year.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me.

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Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer by SomeCallMeTim on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:34PM (#12593428)
Others have mentioned Xamarin is free and (mostly? entirely?) open source now. See also NativeScript [1].

And TypeScript solves 80% of his complaints. A good linter with ruleset hits most of the remaining 20%.

Cross-platform is the way to go in 2016. It's a waste to write in Swift and Java to cover two platforms.

[1] http://nativescript.com/

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Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer by cornflake on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:12PM (#12593266)
Most of the Appcelerator community i'm in touch with use the free Titanium builds instead of paying for an Appcelerator license: http://builds.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#m...

Titanium has always been a pretty advanced product however ever since Appcelerator introduced it's licensing/arrow stuff, Titanium (and Alloy) uptake seems to have fallen off a cliff.

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Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer by oblio on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:36PM (#12593442)
Xamarin is now both free and Open Source.
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