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Re:Reactant is a new native framework for iOS by art0rz on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:00PM (#15368121)
I'm not a native mobile developer, but how are Swift and live-reloading code mutually exclusive?
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Re:Reactant is a new native framework for iOS by Zeppin on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:41PM (#15368480)
They’re not mutually exclusive but the main reason that Swift is so performant is because it’s a compiled language rather than an interpreted language like JS. To support live reloading with a compiled language you would either need to support live compilation and re-deployment (difficult) or treat Swift as a scripting language (redundant).
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