<story><title>React Native is not the future</title><url>https://blog.standardnotes.com/40921/no-react-native-is-not-the-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crossroadsguy</author><text>There is no better way to build a mobile app than a native app. This was shown yet again when I tried Standard Notes few days ago for the nth time. It still is sluggish and slow and felt like having too many jerks and clunks. Downright unusable for a major notes app in 2022.. well 23.&lt;p&gt;Among Joplin, Obsidian, FS Notes, Bear and few more Standard Note was the worst experience by a margin. Not to mention they still not allowing local raw files citing “but encryption”, or maybe they’ve moved to another reason now.&lt;p&gt;Another example of how developers can become blissfully oblivious of what users find good and start confusing it for what is “good” for developers themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstummbillig</author><text>&amp;gt; There is no better way to build a mobile app than a native app.&lt;p&gt;There is, if the only tangible alternative to building a native app is not building a mobile app at all.&lt;p&gt;Every application deals with some amount of sluggishness. Performance is not a mobile app only problem, it&amp;#x27;s not a new thing and it&amp;#x27;s not entirely clear, when it&amp;#x27;s going to be a big problem and when people will be okay with it.&lt;p&gt;With all the strides being made, the future is almost certainly not going to be 3 code bases for 90% of simple CRUD apps, because while the problem of maintaining a lot of code is not getting better for developers, the js glue layer so many people long for most certainly is, and rapidly.</text></comment>
<story><title>React Native is not the future</title><url>https://blog.standardnotes.com/40921/no-react-native-is-not-the-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crossroadsguy</author><text>There is no better way to build a mobile app than a native app. This was shown yet again when I tried Standard Notes few days ago for the nth time. It still is sluggish and slow and felt like having too many jerks and clunks. Downright unusable for a major notes app in 2022.. well 23.&lt;p&gt;Among Joplin, Obsidian, FS Notes, Bear and few more Standard Note was the worst experience by a margin. Not to mention they still not allowing local raw files citing “but encryption”, or maybe they’ve moved to another reason now.&lt;p&gt;Another example of how developers can become blissfully oblivious of what users find good and start confusing it for what is “good” for developers themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rvz</author><text>&amp;gt; There is no better way to build a mobile app than a native app.&lt;p&gt;Clubhouse (a native app) said the same thing years ago and ended up becoming irrelevant and its features were absorbed and overtaken by Discord (a React Native app) with its Stage Channels feature, all before Clubhouse could build it&amp;#x27;s Android app.&lt;p&gt;By the time Clubhouse released its Android app, their lunch was already eaten and it was too late. It turns out that, after recently looking at their latest app build they are slowly integrating React Native in their app.&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a quiet way of them admitting that they should have used React Native in the first place for both iOS and Android to release quicker had they done that as I said before. [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28478951&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28478951&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>