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by shmerl 3401 days ago
> it felt like a step backwards, from being able to implement the whole application in a single language with reasonable properties into a split world where I still need to use native code with all it's downsides.

I see a clear benefit in separating the language for the UI from the application logic language. Having choice of the second is good. Otherwise you are limited a monolithic structure, and need to reinvent the way to define UI in each language.