josephearl

What paradigm? This just seems like a rant rather than adding any real discussion

Apple has restrictions on downloading executable code, which downloading a Lua script would likely fall afoul of.

It's also a potential security risk - the downloaded script could perform things other than logic and so would require sandboxing/whitelisting of commands.

Putting logic in JSON avoids both of these issues since the actual handling of the logic is performed by a client-side library.

I don't think it is at all same. You can clone a Gradle-based project anywhere (e.g. /projects), cd into that directory and run `gradle build` and it will work. There is no `GRADLE_PATH` or similar environment variable determining where all your Gradle-based projects must live.

The `src` folder you are talking about is a sub-directory inside a Gradle based project. This is entirely configurable within the Gradle build script, you can use multiple sub-directories for your source code or even the same directory as the build script if you wish. The reason Gradle uses a single `src` sub-directory by default is that it follows the Maven Standard Directory Layout.

I think most people don't understand Xamarin. Up until pretty recently Xamarin had no cross platform UI components. That is although all logic was shared, views had to be written separately for the different platforms - just like React Native.

With Xamarin Forms this has changed - you can add a Xamarin Form component and this will work adapt itself across the different platforms. The key word there is adapt - it is not like an HTML page, a Xamarin form input will look different on Android and iOS by default.

So I think your point, while valid, does not apply in any way to Xamarin!

You could this for your own libraries, but I would strongly recommend against doing this for a public lib if you want traction (e.g. if you are making a bunch of SDKs for your APIs) - in this case you should publish your lib in the most popular language(s) for the platform(s) you are targeting.

AFAIK there's nothing stopping you using Kotlin on iOS with RoboVM since it is a JVM language - https://robovm.com.

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