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by jamil7 1316 days ago
> Take, for example, native iOS development. For any dev, that involves regular bouts of multi-day configuration hell. Xcode is a huge beast and cryptic for beginners. Add in multiple third party libraries like firebase and it's a tossup which is harder, native or RN.

Hard disagree here, to me this is one of the parts of native iOS development that is far, far better than web development. The web makes up for this with other strengths, but there is no way they're even comparable setup wise.
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marstall 1316 days ago
I guess we had a different experience - perhaps it is better now. my experience with native development was around 2014 with the objectiveC to Swift transition and that was its own hell - but I remember spending a lot of time, maybe 20-30% of my time I would guess, staring down weird build errors.
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jamil7 1315 days ago
Oh yeah that period was rough. Xcode and Swift are a lot more stable these days. I guess my experience is also tainted by webpack-heavy JS work from years ago that was a dependency/tooling nightmare. It seems better now with the newer bundlers.
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