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by otikik 1311 days ago
> React Native is great; React Native firebase is great; Firebase is great; Apple is great.

Forgive me for saying this, but the fact that you started with that line makes it sound like you might have some Stockholm Syndrome (or perhaps Sunk Cost Fallacy is more appropriate here). Because what you wrote afterwards makes it clear that at least some of the parts that you mentioned afterwards are in fact not great.
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qudat 1311 days ago
Once everything is setup and builds are working, it's pretty great. Being able to write react components in a mobile app is quite the productivity booster.

However, the infra surrounding getting that to work is quite the burden and one could argue that it isn't worth it, but at the end of the day that's a metric that can be measured and judged by the developers.

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amateurInAll 1311 days ago
Maybe - I just want to be clear that in all of these camps I see great contributions from surely very talented teams.

So it isn't a rant about any one actor being bad. But somehow, getting it all to work together is not just difficult, it seems like with time it's getting more difficult.

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joshxyz 1310 days ago
OP forgot to add Windows is great.

jesus christ so hard to code there.

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