[theknarf]

React Native is able to build abstractions on top of both Android and iOS that uses native UI. Microsoft even have a package for doing a "React Native" for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

It's weird that we don't have a unified "React Native Desktop" that would build upon the react-native-windows package and add similar backends for MacOS and Linux. That way we could be building native apps while keeping the stuff developers like from React.

[reverius42]

There are such implementations for React Native: https://reactnative.dev/docs/out-of-tree-platforms

[realusername]

React Native desktop on Linux isn't a thing, the GTK backend is abandonned.

So if you want a multiplatform desktop app also supporting Linux, React Native isn't going to cut it.

[sideeffffect]

https://reactnative.dev/docs/out-of-tree-platforms says otherwise

React Native Skia allegedly runs on Linux too

[sideeffffect]

React Native Skia seems abandoned. But maybe this will make React Native on Linux viable

https://github.com/gtkx-org/gtkx

[realusername]

React Native Skia last commit is three years ago.