If you had to choose a technology to build a mobile app (for both platforms), which one would you pick and why: .NET, React Native, or a native language?

Did you know that 3 billion devices run Java?

@ScriptCoded did you know that 2 billion people don't have access to clean drinking water?

your fact still describes the bigger misery.

Native pretty much always wins unless you need to have something out quickly

Xamarin is dead so .Net is out.

React native is JS cancer. Only over my cold dead body.

Flutter and Dart will die in a couple of years.

KMP is the new hyped tech that will die in 4 to 6 years.

Native language is the only sane choice that will still be around when all the other cross platform and hybrid bullshit techs have long been dead.

@BordedDev

> unless you need to have something out quickly

not even that. Being quick depends on what you are familiar with.

I'd pick anything that isn't god forsaken React

@tosensei and that we can fix those problem easily if we really cared?

@Lensflare 100% I can dev an android app faster than I can shit out react native (by several magnitude). But that will still be faster than me writing something for iOS, since I don't own anything apple, then again I'd argue you should have 2 separate apps because the user flow/expectations are different

@BordedDev all of the hybrid and cross platform techs, including react native, require you to have a mac anyway to make iOS apps.
So you can as well use Swift and SwiftUI, which is arguably the best DX that you will ever get.
And I have tried almost everything so I know what I‘m talking about.

@Lensflare Swift and Swift UI offer the best DX ever. What is DX? Digital Experience or smth?
Also, getting into Swift and Swift UI as a career path comes with a lot of "red tape", so you must really want to be an Apple-based developer. How did you manage that? Sheer luck?

@gitstashio DX is developer experience. I fell into Apple development somewhat by accident when I started at my first job. Back then there was no Swift but only Objective-C.
I hated this language but started to like the platform and the sdk. When Swift came out it was great and later when SwiftUI came out it was the best.
So I didn‘t really aim to be an Apple developer. It just happened.

Last time I talked to a real Apple dev (also from Objective C days) he told me there are only about 5 real Apple Devs that can make an entire app from start to finish in the entire country (not US). So he started a business around this.