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The Discord devs use RN and their app is anything but experimental or small. And there are by far not the only one (Skype, Instagram, Wix, UberEats, Tesla, Baidu, Salesforce).

Native devs don’t like RN because the mobile dev supply gets bigger which hurts their market value. That’s the real reason of your post, spreading FUD.

RN has its limitations but for 80% of apps it’s absolutely fine.

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For every app still using it there are 10 abandoning it.

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...

Please stop with the market value/FUD attacks, they are nonsense and childish. You clearly have an axe to grind.

I don't like RN because I have had to sunset multiple large projects in RN. Javascript is a mess for mobile development. The interaction between the native layer is a mess. Hell, it's still not even a 1.0 release yet - smart CTOs would be insane to suggest it as a tool. Just look at the upgrade guides they post - a mess.

I am quite sure uber eats is not using RN anymore (evidence here: https://www.appbrain.com/app/uber-eats:-local-food-delivery/...). There are many examples of companies abandoning RN, e.g. udacity, airbnb...

But the vast majority stays with RN.

I don't know and don't really care. Most apps I use work as PWAs anyway, I also prefer the browser. But i can only speak for myself, time will tell...

Exactly. It's the same with Rails.

I love rails.

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