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by fnayr 4073 days ago
"Many of them [JavaScript developers] have dreaded the day they’d finally need to learn the more complicated Objective-C, Swift and Java languages"

Learning the languages (syntax) was never the difficult part. Learning the frameworks was. And React Native doesn't solve that.

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Absolutely true.

As a point of comparison, it seems to me that some people feel let down by Swift because it didn't suddenly make iOS programming easy... But a programming language can't do that on its own, when the UI framework remains the same.