Re:Ask HN: Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry?
by muzani on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:18AM
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Is evidence helpful?
At our workplace, it's clear that Cordova hybrid is worse than maintaining both iOS/Swift and Android/Kotlin, in terms of bugs, development time, hiring/retention cost, user experience. But we still do it.
Sometimes it's just that there's less unknowns involved. A bug in Cordova might take a week to fix. A bug in Android or iOS might take 1-2 days. Statistically it would be a no brainer. But bugs are dreadful things and there's the possibility that it could take much longer than usual or go unnoticed.
At our workplace, it's clear that Cordova hybrid is worse than maintaining both iOS/Swift and Android/Kotlin, in terms of bugs, development time, hiring/retention cost, user experience. But we still do it.
Sometimes it's just that there's less unknowns involved. A bug in Cordova might take a week to fix. A bug in Android or iOS might take 1-2 days. Statistically it would be a no brainer. But bugs are dreadful things and there's the possibility that it could take much longer than usual or go unnoticed.