And again, sorry you two... but speed is only one axis and is largely for the *current users using the web on their phones of which there are statistically very few*. Our ecosystem is dying, fast or not.
RN is a similar value prop, although it has seen...challenges... https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-native-1868ba28e30a … Regardless, web developers aren't going to win this argument for very long until/unless Apple's blatantly anti-web stance is changed somehow.
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And that is something that I completely agree with you on. I'd argue the web experience on iOS (and bad UX, in general) is doing more to kill the web than JavaScript. Though I don't doubt that performance issues are *a* problem.
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It's doubly bad because iOS is paired to the most powerful hardware, hiding the next-longest-tent-pole of terrrrrrible perf from developers, keeping them from competing when they *do* get to green fields.
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