An under-discussed topic: how the hottest software engineering job of the early 2010s is seeing a steady but ongoing decline the last few years. I'm talking about the native iOS and Android positions. Outside of Big Tech, few startups/scaleups hire for this. Since ~2022?
I analyzed it back in 2022, and don't see this trend being reversed at all: https://newsletter.pragmaticen... A few Staff+ level native mobile engineers I know at Big Tech are moving away from native mobile, into fullstack or Ai engineering, due to lack of professional growth and
React Native is definitely the tool of choice for most startups and scaleups (save for a very small number of ones that care very much about e.g. performance, and don't mind spending 2-3x as much on their mobile app as RN would cost) https://x.com/rauchg/status/19...
@GergelyOrosz It definitely makes sense in terms of team and resource allocation, but there's a user-perceivable lag in React Native apps that just feels wrong.
@pyvitor This is increasingly argumentative (which shows how RN keeps improving compared to native perf) eg https://x.com/vashishtaditya_/...
@GergelyOrosz As someone that never got warm feelings for both RN and Flutter I still struggle with the choice what to use for every project. Does anyone have a comparison with 2+ years of experience in both side by side?