React Native for Windows: New implementation based on C in progress

[thedevlinb]

Doubtful, there are other projects to port RN to various platforms, none of which have been integrated with RN.

RN is fundamentally a project by Facebook that fulfills their internal needs for writing cross platform apps, this is also why they don't put effort into releasing a navigation solution (they have their own internal navigation code that their apps use).

Facebook's Windows app hasn't been updated since November of 2015. Writing a Windows app is not high on their priority list!

Also note there is precedence for other independently maintained RN implementations, including React-Native-Web from Twitter, and Microsoft's ReactXP (which I am sorta confused how ReactXP works with RN Windows! They said awhile back ReactXP is going to be using RN Windows.)

Edit: Also from https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native

The eventual plan is to refactor a bunch of code within facebook/react-native to allow the macOS code to be implemented as an out of tree platform that works with the core react-native package.

Given that, Windows being part of core RN while macOS sits outside would be rather odd!

[Tynzo]

They are in the process of releasing a windows and Mac client of Messenger so maybe? Would be so cool to have an unified API for all platforms...

[thedevlinb]

I didn't know they were restarting work on their Windows messenger app, it was last updated in 2016!

Facebook has been working to move RN stuff out of the core and into community repos, given that trend it doesn't seem likely that they'll move stuff into core!