Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by rvz on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:59AM (#49644903)

Agreed, the whole of the Javascript / TypeScript ecosystem has caused a slop hellscape of workarounds, half-backed fixes and have exposed short-comings in the ecosystem.

Perhaps these languages do not work well as they are not designed to run efficiently on mobile devices. Now that we have libraries such as SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, React Native no longer makes sense to use.

Now we should also move away from Electron to better alternatives such as Kotlin Multi-Platform or fully native libraries on each platform; because of LLMs.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by hermitwriter on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:22PM (#49646304)

So disagree. The benefits you get from leveraging a framework as as important today as they have ever been -- strong frameworks, fewer tokens, faster progress.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by simonhamp on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:42PM (#49653296)

Hallelujah!

One other person in this place gets it: "fewer tokens, faster progress"

Electron, Tauri, React Native/Expo, Flutter (and countless others) are the wrong kind of abstractions, built for a time pre-AI, solving pre-AI problems

We need a new post-AI abstraction that embraces this opportunity!

That's why we're building SuperNative

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