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At the end of the day, there is nothing fundamental that RN/Web can't do compared to native. You just move boxes based on time and touches

Yeah, but it's the momentum that's hard. Like

@_chenglou

says it's hard to compete with JS solely because it moves fast...

iOS doesn't move quite as fast but every new version requires you to keep up

vjeux ✪

@Vjeux

I don't think that's iOS moving fast. It's more that no one actually tried to match it perfectly. All the attempts I've seen are incomplete

Do you think that indicates at all that it may not be possible? I'm sure some really smart people have tried

vjeux ✪

@Vjeux

8:43 PM · Apr 5, 2017Twitter for Mac

The problem is around incentives. Who is going to benefit from spending a month replicating this?

to hear

tell it, it would take rather more than a month :P

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Yes, maybe… but not years. I do think

@vjeux

’s right at bottom. It’s doable; it’ll take time and cultural valuation.

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Culturally, I often don’t see folks valuing perfect matching. I see ~eyeballing, not the output of using e.g. xScope. Incentives, as you say