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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com@sebastienlorber.com

👀 Shopify is migrating from React Native back to native shopify.engineering/back-to-native

shopify.engineeringNative is now the future of mobile at Shopify (2026) - ShopifyCoding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.

13/9/26, 11:58 am0 reposts5 likes

spyke

@spyke.bsky.social

13 Sept

The question is why even bothering with Kotlin? It still has the GC lag and increased memory pressure. Is it much more difficult for agents to make everything in Rust now? If it is, for how long, a year more?