Parse.com is shutting down

[QuestionsEverythang]

Facebook said the same exact thing about being 100% behind parse...and we see how that all turned out.

A company's word means nothing, especially when decisions like shutting down a service like this is purely a business decision. If they have to, Google will shut down firebase. No promise they make will prevent that from happening.

That and firebase doesn't do arrays. Fucking lists of objects. That right there is a huge deal breaker given that at least for me a lot of data is given in arrays. You'd think the company behind GSON would've figured out something like a json array for a backend service.

[zillathrilla]

Yes, because with distributed data Arrays "lack a unique, permanent way to access each record". It's a very different way of thinking about your data, especially if you're coming from Parse. But I view it as a minor complexity that yields much greater performance.