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jb1991

> If you continue reading the rest of the sentence

who stops reading a sentence in the middle?

I did not include Android or other stacks because I don't know about them (as I said, "not sure about other areas"). But for iOS it is not uncommon for developers to solely specialize in it, yet the comment claims it is uncommon. I wonder if you misread my comment or the one I replied to? Or perhaps the original comment is grammatically ambiguous.

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My wording could have been better - I meant that it’s uncommon for engineers to know both iOS and Android at a deep level. Sharing code can let you share a lot of your logic, but you still need to understand the native host environment well, in fact maybe even deeper than normal since you are using unconventional approaches.

So you need engineers that have this deep iOS experience, deep Android experience, and deep C++/rust experience. If you are a solo dev with this skillset then maybe it’s a good choice. But in a team / big company setting such an unconventional stack will always be a drag chute on your velocity in all stages of the project

They were saying that it's uncommon for a single developer to specialize in both iOS and Android

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