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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by JimDabell on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:15PM (#22477159)
> Yeah, not sure where this idea has come from. Seems like RN haters just jumping on any opportunity to slate it.

There seems to be a much more obvious explanation as to why people are assuming it used to be React Native. The article says:

> > Compared with the previous iOS version, this new Messenger is [mentions improvements].

> > We accomplished this by using the native OS wherever possible […]

That seems to imply that it wasn't native before and they got the gains by switching to native. And since Facebook are well-known as the creators and biggest users of React Native, it's not a big leap to make the assumption that that's where they were coming from.

[Also, in case there's any confusion please note the distinction between "native", meaning it is compiled to native code; and "React Native", which is a cross-platform framework that is not compiled to native code. "React Native" is a horrible name for something that is not native.]

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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by tomduncalf on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:34PM (#22479374)
My bad, I didn’t pick up on that wording potentially suggesting that. RN gets quite a lot of flak from native devs it would seem, hence my assumption!
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