Ask HN: Write once, run anywhere front ends failed. Thoughts?
I think the idea of one programming language everywhere has sailed, for a while at least.
It looked like JavaScript was going to be able to do it. React and React Native were very promising.
But since we now have Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack, each platform has a language and framework specifically tailored for it. Except for Windows which is still a shit show.
Attempts to abstract this in a cross-platform layer are becoming more and more difficult, and offering less marginal value (e.g. we now have declarative frameworks natively whereas before we only had React).
Each platform has a recommended way to do everything, and we should follow the conventions of each platform.
I would be interested to hear if anyone has actually had successful though with frontend code sharing...
It looked like JavaScript was going to be able to do it. React and React Native were very promising.
But since we now have Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack, each platform has a language and framework specifically tailored for it. Except for Windows which is still a shit show.
Attempts to abstract this in a cross-platform layer are becoming more and more difficult, and offering less marginal value (e.g. we now have declarative frameworks natively whereas before we only had React).
Each platform has a recommended way to do everything, and we should follow the conventions of each platform.
I would be interested to hear if anyone has actually had successful though with frontend code sharing...