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I think you might be confusing Facebook with Google.

Ask any app developer that's used React Native or any web developer that's had to create a native app if it has a reason to exist.

Facebook has hundreds or thousands of React developers that - before React Native - could only develop for web. Now they can move their web developers to their native apps almost seamlessly.

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And that's a good thing? I'm being serious here. The web ranks among the crappiest user experience I have with software I use today. And when I speak with colleagues who do the web development at the company I work for they seem far from happy with their development environments and process. It's like the presentation, in which MB of JavaScript are required to render a few paragraphs of text with a side bar or drop-down menu, went to the development environment where thousands of dependencies are required to produce "hello world."

The last thing I want is to see yet more traveling down the path of "web app" style development for my phone's apps.

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