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"OS X - Only OS X is currently supported"

Why is this becoming popular ?

There's unfortunately a lot of non-overlapping work so we decided to release what we have finished incrementally. Most of the team uses OS X for development so it was a natural first choice. We're planning on adding the missing Windows and Linux support soon!

Do you want to give us a time-frame so we can go create http://www.reactnativeandroidforwindows.com/ and put a countdown timer on there?

Any idea when? I'm not sure what the full build stack is, so it's hard to have an idea on what has to be ported.

Thank you for your reply, you should add this information somewhere because right now there is now way to know you're working on it.

Yeah, it made me really sad. This is not a comment on this project specifically, but it seems to be the way the world is going - so many platform specific dependencies that even a cross-platform project is made specifically with one development platform in mind and that is considered normal.

I've been in Windows for a long time and it uses to be the opposite a long time ago - everything would be released on Windows only and Macs were left abandoned - so I guess I'm seeing the other side now. Not a super fan of Microsoft, but still annoyed I'll have to eventually switch just because of stuff like this.

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