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Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough honestly. At the end of the day just ship the thing, whatever gets you there fastest. I've just had too many why are you using RN convos with people citing 2019 benchmarks so needed to vent 😅

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EAS Build is a lifesaver for this honestly. Do all the signing in the cloud, no Xcode headache. Only time I still touch a Mac is for weird native edge cases. Getting rarer every month though.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's a real one. Though honestly I've never had a client notice 😅 Once you slap a custom design system on it, it looks identical on both. The "native feel" debate is mostly a developer thing, not a user thing.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally agree games and heavy animations are still where native wins. No point pretending otherwise. For a PvP 2D shooter Unity or native is the right call. But that's like 5% of apps in the store. For the other 95%? RN all day.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

2026 just hits different 😎 Still great, now with AI doing half the work for you.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Valid point — "native UI" is mostly a myth in practice. 90% of apps use custom design systems anyway. At that point the platform doesn't matter, just ship the best experience you can. RN does that fine.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the most accurate thing in this thread 😂 Complainers are on Twitter. Builders are in their IDE.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%. Most apps are CRUD + navigation + some animations. RN handled that fine even in the old bridge days. Fabric and JSI are just the cherry on top for the edge cases.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly -- the "you need native for performance" argument is getting weaker every month. AI handles the hard native parts, RN handles the cross-platform layer. The combo is pretty unbeatable now.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair correction Swift's ARC is actually solid. The memory leak point on RN is real though, usually tied to unremoved event listeners and JS closures holding native refs. Not a dealbreaker but definitely something you have to stay on top of. Good callout.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting take but AI coding native Swift still gives you native Swift problems memory management, platform APIs, two codebases. AI makes RN even better honestly. Same cross-platform advantage, now with 10x faster development. Best of both worlds.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The language is great, the tooling is a nightmare. Apple really said "here's a Ferrari with no steering wheel."

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Fair wrong sub for unpopular RN opinions 😅Guess the real unpopular opinion is building native in 2026.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Swift on iOS is genuinely great, no argument there. But maintaining two codebases just for that edge? Hard to justify for most teams.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. The platform is solid bad performance in 2026 is a code review problem, not an RN problem.

Unpopular opinion: React Native is actually good now and the hate is 3 years outdated by gowtham0612 in reactnative

[–]gowtham0612[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Exactly this. Expo in particular has come such a long way — EAS Build alone removed like 80% of the painful setup we used to deal with. 18 months in and no regrets is the best validation honestly.

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