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Consider switching to mobile :). Language anxiety doesn’t exist here, you either work in Swift (maybe some ObjC) or Kotlin (maybe some Java). New APIs come out, new patterns develop, but languages are quite static.

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How does something like react native fit in the mobile world? Are there cases where it could be used instead of straight swift or kotlin?

It's a niche thing people who don't know any better try to use and then get stuck, not wanting to re-write their codebase.

For the most part, every dev shop has separate iOS and Android devs.

RN has generally used in situations where the company/project is small and they don’t have much or any native talent and this kind of makes sense for awhile… or a manager makes a play for “efficiency”. All the big players who have tried it eventually went back to native for various reasons.

I mean, Discord didn't, and Discord is not a small player any more. Are you saying they are the exception to the rule?

Shopify also uses React Native: https://shopify.engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopi...

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