Comment by blehn

The compile and build times on iOS (and Android) are also painfully slow. They claim to have "hot reloading" but only under very specific conditions, and it's not the whole app. When you're working with UI in particular, you can often edit and text your changes 10x faster on React than native. You could argue that the quality "gains" you get from native are partially negated by the reduction in iteration speed. Quality often comes from iteration and it's an order of magnitude faster with React.