Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by asdfsa32 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:34AM (#49645529)

I was surprised by your comments and then you do Rust to be called via Java or Kotlin and Swift?

What does your app do?

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by sprite on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:37PM (#49651078)

Yes uniffi created swift and kotlin bindings. The app I did with this is just a sudoku game https://www.puzzlesight.com . Before AI I would have reached for something like Flutter to avoid doing all work twice but with AI doing two apps makes more sense.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by asdfsa32 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:23PM (#49653176)

Okay, makes sense, the whole thing looks and screams vibe coded. On a beefy machine, navigating between your website pages takes 2-3 seconds. So still a long way to go with AI.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by sprite on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:33AM (#49659145)

Interesting, it's instant on mine. The landing page is just Astro with cloudflare in front of it, the origin server is a hetzner box in Germany though.

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