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by grumblingdev 1013 days ago
Facebook Messenger uses React Native.

WhatsApp Desktop uses WinUI.

WhatsApp is superior.

I don't get React Native. It's such a huge, complicated abstraction with no ability to performance tweak. I don't understand how a company as big as Facebook doesn't have enough resources to build native apps for each platform. These UIs are the simplest app you could build as well.

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> Facebook Messenger uses React Native.

This is misleading at best, if not outright wrong.