[tomduncalf]

I wonder how far you could get using something like https://github.com/carson-katri/SwiftWebUI or https://github.com/TokamakUI/Tokamak to render the Swift app to a webview for the other platforms... I’ve not tried it, I imagine there might be jank and limitations as SwiftWebUI is “a toy project” but with some work could be a legit option - I’ve run pretty bespoke and complex React Native applications as desktop apps via react-native-web and Electron and it worked incredibly well.

I do like the idea of only maintaining a single codebase, but of course it comes with significant trade offs. The idea of building for Apple-first but automatically getting a reasonable fallback for other platforms is quite appealing - as you say, for many businesses it probably makes sense to focus on having the most polished iOS experience possible.

Honestly I’ve been quite impressed with the end results we’ve got from React Native, but you are always going to be lagging behind the native platform.

[novok]

I'll be frank, the developer experience of swift is horrible. Webdev with typescript, their instant response times in development, lack of compiling and lack of an update cycle (the URL is always the latest version, whether you like it or not) is way more productive than compiled iOS dev. Swift is only good for macOS and iOS effectively now.

Flutter devex is also faster and more responsive, but it just doesn't quite make as a good of a product on iOS. iOS users are higher revenue and have higher standards than android users also.