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Hard to tell from just looking at the static analysis. The size of Compose is relatively small compared to overall dex, but our guess is that a lot of that has to do with sharing code with IG

Ah, so even the makers of React are not dogfooding it anymore. Sounds about right.

s/React/React Native/

Pretty sure they're using it on web everywhere and IMHO that's a decent choice when you need state management / DOM updates.

React Native is a whole other ball of mud, taking UI decisions out of the main thread where phones want them to be and delegating them into a bolted on javascript environment.

I was told they use mostly for the ad platform and slow as snail.

And FB performance degrading every month. I mostly use FB groups.

Meta is not the target market for React Native.

In your opinion who is?

A team that doesn’t have the resources for both Android and iOS experts. You won’t get as polished of a product but you’ll get it done with less work.

Instagram (the web version at least) is built in React.

It’ll be hard to tell just from file sizes. Stuff like the news feed is unlikely to use it - but maybe things like profile pages, settings, search