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faangguyindiayesterday at 2:42 PM1 replyview on HN

React Native is slow.

Hermes VM doesn't even have JIT.

If the majority of your app is native code and only a few places are stitched together via JS code that runs in the Hermes VM, then React Native is suitable for you.

Look at V8 vs. Hermes performance.

We use Flutter; we rarely need to write native code. We have three apps: Symbiote workout app, CalorieCodex, an AI calorie tracker app, and MacroCodex with 17,000+ users, all of them completely free


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hermitwriteryesterday at 4:23 PM

Your data is out of date. React Native performs within spitting distance of raw native now because in the last 2 years... it basically became native - it's now false dichotomy

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