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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Klonoar on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:57PM (#22468258)
UIWebView was deprecated for years, everyone's had plenty of time to move to WKWebView, and it has nothing to do with React Native to boot.

Apple legitimately doesn't seem to care about hybrid frameworks, they've been there since day one. Any time it's seemed like it got difficult Apple has backed down. The lack of JIT in WKWebView is probably the only thing that you could stretch here.

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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by saagarjha on Monday March 02, 2020 @03:03PM (#22468311)
WKWebView is out-of-process and has a JIT.
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Klonoar on Monday March 02, 2020 @03:59PM (#22468910)
Ah, you're correct - not sure why I thought otherwise, especially when I touch WKWebView pretty often.
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by saagarjha on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:08PM (#22470527)
Perhaps you confused it with JavaScriptCore?
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Klonoar on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:38PM (#22471327)
Hmmm, possibly. Either way thanks for the catch!
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Turing_Machine on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:01PM (#22468933)
Printing still sucked pretty bad in WKWebView the last time I looked into it (which admittedly has been a year or two, so maybe that's been fixed).
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