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by hu3 1458 days ago
I recently suggested to one of my consultancy customers (valued at $500mil) that they should hire Kotlin and Swift developers to improve the quality of their React Native app.

The response I got is: "nope, we're fine employing one mid-level React dev to maintain our app in both platforms."

They don't consider mobile apps being essential for their fintech business in 2022. I'm speechless but this serves as a hint as to why we don't see more Kotlin and Swift jobs: companies are cutting corners with React.

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As someone who does cross-platform frequently now, after doing native apps for a long time, that gives me anxiety for that dev lol. I can't imagine how helpless they feel to fix the 1000 random issues they run against in cross-platform land.