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Comment by Cthulhu_

Honestly the amount of work people have put in over the years to NOT just build an app with the native tooling is staggering. It really is not that expensive to duplicate some code across multiple target platforms, compared to the compatibility, UX and accessibility headaches.

Facebook and Twitter both spend dozens if not hundreds of man-years trying to make HTML lists (tweets, posts) scroll as fast as native. Google is spending IDK how much hours painstakingly redrawing all the native components for both iOS and Android into Flutter, having to catch up every time they make a change.

Just use the platform like it was intended to be used. You're not special. You're not smarter. You're forgetting most of what the authors have already solved.

And, if you're at the scale of the Facebooks and co, you have the engineers to build it. You have the engineers to rebuild your whole app from scratch a dozen times over. And if you don't, it'll be trivial to find and hire them at the rates you're paying.

parent Cthulhu_ 5 years ago

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