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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Agree. Will it be as performant as native? No. But will it be plenty performant for a password manager, yes.

The only thing I wish RN and Flutter would figure out is bloat. File sizes are huge compared to native. A shame there can't be a shared model in mobile apps for the core system.

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Flutter is native. It gets compiled to an executable, it just takes a render plane from the underlying OS and renders everything in it's own engine. They're working on a new render system that will make it go even faster.

React Native is just a fancy web browser wrapping with some helper APIs.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

RN is native too I think, at least it advertises itself as a way to compile some kind of XML syntax into native widgets on either platform. An improvement to PWAs even if I despise typescript

[–] hruzgar@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

yeah, it displays native widgets but there is still a js engine (browser) running in the background. So the basically made a layer between native components and Javascript. But the code which is running is js and js is slow.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

yeah the JS/TS was always a killer for me ngl

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

JS by itself is very fast (it's one of the fastest dynamic languages). It's interop with platforms APIs that is slow, at the fact that each React app spins up its own instance of Chromium also doesn't help.

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