Re:Why did Airbnb dump React Native? (2021)
by Mertax on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @10:46PM
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Xamarin/MAUI doesn’t get the buzz/love from HN audience that React Native and Flutter get. I think there is a lot of historical bias here.
My company has found success with the dotnet stack. We are able to keep a small team of 5 developers that maintain 3 mobile apps (Xamarin), 2 desktop apps (WPF transitioning MAUI), and 1 web app (Blazor) all sharing about 50-80% of the code base. These are apps that bring our company about $7+mil in annual revenue if you include the associated hardware which dotnet/C# is well suited to interact “natively” with.
Re:Why did Airbnb dump React Native? (2021)
by programmarchy on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @01:26AM
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You’re on to something. I did a stint at a .NET shop and C# is still my favorite language. Dabbled with a Xamarin project a few years ago, and although it seemed like it would be fragile, it actually “just worked”.
Re:Why did Airbnb dump React Native? (2021)
by brianwawok on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @10:27PM
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Right. They also extend, embrace, extinguish. They also make very clunky tools for people that like to click to code.
The same Xamarin app i built in 2014, still runs, on .net7. MS nailed crossplatform in a way that an ad company is never going to invest in. They needed to nail cross-platform to keep themselves as a company relevant; they lost the platform war, then redefined it.
Just launched more apps on the platform this year, love it to death. SAme skills i learnt in silverlight, still relevant 10yrs later. Share 90% of code across every platform; and that 10% is built on native wrapped libraries which are generated off every release. MS has the infrastructure and investment like no ad or book store would ever.