[ageektrapped]

The choice to port to RN wasn't technical at all. Tobi (the CEO) prefers RN philosophically. No technical argument opposed to RN--which is super easy to come up with, along several axes--would have stopped the port. It was inevitable. This is my opinion, as I watched it unfold. I'm no longer at Shopify.

[smith7018]

It seems like the choice to use RN is usually made by the business side rather than engineers. I'm biased because I work as a mobile engineer but I've never heard an engineer emphatically love working with RN. In fact, I've usually heard horror stories about how it works, still having to write platform code, finding the talent that knows how to properly write RN, the fact that it's technically single threaded, etc. But hey, at least the higher ups get to hear "there's one codebase and therefore it's cheaper."

[weego]

If he's willing to have the business fund it long term then fair enough honestly. But it seems like a weak strategy that isn't playing out well judging by the progress made over the 3 years so far.