Thanks again Colin. I'm taking Mike Fikes assessment as the truth here, so going back to exploring React Native.
Here is something wonderful I just run across: https://github.com/ericvicenti/react-native-community/blob/master/README.md On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Colin Fleming <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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