React Native for Windows and Mac

Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by diss on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:41PM (#23162494)

Aside from update frequency you wouldn't, users can't tell the difference if it's done well. Are we not talking about "the state of software development"?

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by scarface74 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:22PM (#23162743)

Microsoft and Adobe update their apps quite frequently -- for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. I gladly pay $100 a year for O365.

What are some well done cross platform apps that don't unnecessarily drain battery life? I can think of one - VSCode.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by diss on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:39PM (#23162861)

Huge companies, yes. They'd still prefer to spend less money/resource/time if they have the option to though, hence why some large companies actively explore cross platform technology. Adobe did that with phonegap a long time ago.

You're talking about Electron there, which like phonegap is a browser wrapper and a different thing to RN. I don't believe RN is known to be a battery drain in general.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by scarface74 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:02PM (#23162994)

How well did PhoneGap work out?

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by diss on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:17PM (#23163104)

Badly, which is why we have a totally different approach in the form of RN, Flutter etc. The concept of cross platform support wasn't the problem, that's what we're chasing for a reason.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by onion2k on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:06PM (#23162654)

It keeps the cost down. A lot of end users care more about cost than literally anything else.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by scarface74 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:04AM (#23163364)

How many end users pay for non-game desktop software at all? How many successful (ie profitable) companies have made money selling desktop software using cross platform frameworks like React Native?

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by onion2k on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:00AM (#23163917)

How many successful (ie profitable) companies have made money selling desktop software using cross platform frameworks like React Native?

React Native for Windows and Mac specifically, none. We commenting on an article about its launch. It's a bit early to be talking about that.

Cross-platform frameworks like Electron or Flutter, loads. VSCode, Skype, Discord, WhatsApp Desktop all use it. Of course you might argue that they're all selling services rather than software but that the point really is that the companies authoring those apps want to keep costs down, give users the same experience everywhere, and believe cross-platform apps can give users a good experience.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by scarface74 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:31AM (#23167230)

And no one cares about any of those apps to pay money directly...

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by onion2k on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:10AM (#23167603)

You can't really make that assertion because no one can pay money directly. You have no way of knowing if people would pay for them if they were offered as a product. You just assume they wouldn't because that fits your belief that no one would pay for cross-platform framework driven apps. Until you bring some actual evidence to the discuss to back up your point the whole argument is pointless.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by jasonlotito on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:34AM (#23165116)

Because if you as a developer only develops for a single platform and that platform isn’t the one I’m using at the moment, your product is useless for me.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by friedman23 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:27PM (#23163164)

Are you proud of being a consumer rather than a creator?

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by scarface74 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:11AM (#23163673)

Surprisingly enough most developers are both....

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by squnch on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:03AM (#23163357)

Because developer efficiency reduces the cost of the app, or in many cases causes the app to exist where it otherwise would not.

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