Another option if you don't want to go the Swift route is RoboVM, which is actually a very impressive project. It would be great to see a React-style UI diff library for it. Apparently you can use Clojure with it, however I'm not sure it really plays to Clojure's strengths - everything must be AOT'ed and you have no REPL - perhaps it would work well with something like oxcart or skummet. Right now I think I'd use Kotlin or maybe just Java 8. It's worth a look, though.
On 31 March 2015 at 03:32, Marc Fawzi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lucas > > I totally agree with you on the components comment. > > Hi Mike: > > I'm watching your Ambly REPL project and Nolen's experiment with JSX ( > https://github.com/swannodette/jsx-fun) > > The part of the article that highlights my concern is: > > <<Unless you want to subclass an unhealthy amount of UIKit using > Objective-C (hint: I don’t), you will be rather restrained in what you can > do out-of-the-box.>> > > which is expected given the approach, no need to even use React Native to > arrive at this conclusion, but you seem to say that this is a temporary > issue and that Facebook and others will quickly fill the gap. If so, I hope > that the ClojureScript variant will be ready by the time React Native has a > fuller set of components and a wide ecosystem and fewer major bugs, at > which point it will probably be the leading choice for many mobile > development scenarios. > > I guess the sticky point is if we wish to do something which can't be done > with React Native out of the box we'd have to go back to Objective-C. This > will be a long lasting rule, imo, but then a ton of app scenarios can be > accomplished much more nimbly (or ambly) using React Native... wish they > would add Swift support .... > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Mike Fikes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> With respect to it being ready for prime time within a year or two: >> >> The Facebook Ads app is evidently written using React Native. >> >> There is a tremendous amount of interest in it (for example, the >> #reactnative IRC channel is very active). Facebook appears to be very >> responsive—my guess is that a healthy ecosystem will quickly evolve, >> leading to a high quality feature set. >> >> - Mike >> >> >> >> On Mar 30, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Marc Fawzi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> To start the conversation, >> >> >> http://unredacted.redalemeden.com/2015/initial-thoughts-about-react-native/ >> >> (via HN, #1 link right now) >> >> I've been thinking hard if I should keep my hopes up in React Native >> based on the potential for a ClojureScript version, but after reading this >> article (plus some intuition I had that the article confirmed) I'm more >> likely to pick up Swift than a CLJS version of React Native. From a >> technical point of view, I'm still very curious about the React Native >> approach to native development, but I can't tell if it will be ready for >> prime time in a year, two, or more? >> >> Any thoughts and/or speculations? >> >> -- >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ClojureScript" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. >> >> -- >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ClojureScript" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. >> > > -- > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ClojureScript" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. > -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
