[eliperkins]

Doing "react" in the native environment is hard, you have to fight UIKit really hard to get to a good place.

[ReactiveCocoaLayout](https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoaLayout) is a good example of how much work it takes to get close to this pattern, but the view lifecycle as a whole (adding and removing subviews, layout passes, etc.) makes it hard.

From what I understand React-Native does this for you natively under-the-hood, but using JS as an implementation detail.

I really don't think that anyone is advocating for JS being the "better language", but rather one that has a framework (read: React.js) being used in practice which will work with native view as well.