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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by wpietri on Sunday November 03, 2019 @11:37PM (#21439086)
I think that ship sailed a long time ago. Right now I'm building an app with Google's mobile toolkit, Flutter. Flutter itself is a few hundred kloc. And on top of that, I'm using a bunch of libraries; I wouldn't be shocked if it were the same amount of code again. Assuming I can properly code review a few hundred lines per hour, reviewing all that will take me a year or so. Which is maybe 5x what it will take me to ship an MVP.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by concerned_user on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:40AM (#21439634)
You are missing the fact that dependency tree is constantly changing as dependencies get bug fixes and security patches, so in the middle of your review you will be forced to re-check.

Unless you are willing to freeze whole tree until review is done but then you don't get bug fixes and security updates for period of initial review + review of updated packages.

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