@bcdavid it's all about pros and cons. I can't see how something like bluesky or mastodon clients can leverage the platform. Its not a navigator, it's not a video editor, it's not a streaming app. Its just a thing with text, images and videos downloaded from the internet.

And I honestly don't believe that these technologies are chosen because of how cool they are. RN and other cross-platform things exist to fit into a budget (both temporal and financial). These solutions are natural born compromises and are chosen exactly because people need to solve problems on that realm.

I mean... Oracle APEX exists but no one talks of how limited it is despite being very popular and profitable.

Things just solve different problems in a different way for different people. And that's okay

@konnorrogers @zachleat @jakelazaroff

@konnorrogers display:flex + flex-direction:column is a perfectly reasonable default if you're dealing with cross-platform layout. You have the same primitives in flutter, Qt, RN, WPF, and others. It's universal.

display:grid might not be supported by one of the compilation targets, thus they either have to bother to hack it everywhere or just not implement it at all.

@bcdavid @zachleat @jakelazaroff