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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by motorest on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:32AM (#43086967)
From your post:

> The Kindle runs stripped down Linux with a React Native frontend along with Java backend applications.

Honest question: what exactly is wrong with this setup?

There's the OS, there are services and user land apps written in java and misc native code, and from the link there's a single component where Lua was used as bridge code.

The GUI is React Native, which is just a framework to simplify the design and implementation of native GUIs.

So exactly what's wrong?

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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by pr353n747-0n83 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:31AM (#43090660)
It isn't using their preferred stack.

Preferred stack: The one they know.

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