[LeoNatan25]

Let me explain the "fed" thing. React Native's number one "feature" is that web developers are able to join in development, or even start a "native" app where it would not have been possible before due to no native development teams. In the web dev world, "fed" /front end developer/ is usually the term for the front end web developers - this is what I meant. (While iOS and Android is also front end, it seems "fed" is almost exclusively used for front end web developers.) So, normally, anyone that has extensive (or even some) experience with web development, would already be familiar with the ecosystem and concepts, while for many native developers, there is quite the cultural shock from a bad ecosystem, no base library support, very uncomfortable debug tools and a flamboyant community behavior (many ridiculously terrible click-bait Medium articles a la "why I switched from [X] to [Y] and it is the best thing ever" and "How [Z] changed the way I write code and it will change the way software development is done").

I am not sure why you have had bad experience with Xamarin. To me, using .NET for shared business logic sounds like a real winner, but I will give you the fact that it helps with web dev. However, as a purely technological observation and no interest in management considerations, I can only argue against using RN at this stage.

[anamoulous]

FWIW, I have worked in webdev for over a decade and have never seen front-end referred to casually as "fed".

[bennyg]

I think you're conflating a BS web dev culture (which is amplified extensively through the internet and feedback-loopy sites like HN) and actual development technologies.

There's always articles like you're mentioning. I mean, go look at articles when Swift was first announced - or even iOS tutorials and forums ca. 2011.

Sharing business logic is a good thing. But it's hardly the number one feature of react-native. We share almost everything, and have almost no problems doing so. It's been a very good thing for our org, while Xamarin was the opposite.

It's also worth noting that we ramped everyone up from being C# front-end to React/React-Native front-end. So nobody really came in as cutting-edge web dev experts, but our developer velocity now is insane. I think React/RN are good things.

[lenkite]

So, a backend developer would be a 'bed'. I can see how that goes..