In that React Native is more like SWT (also not entirely joyfult to work with)
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(Of course Oracle makes great stuff. In a company as big as Oracle, there are always niches that create great things. But most offerings are dreadful. And most open source acquisitions did not fare especially well under Oracle)
Conversations is ok, but Vector is already better because they can focus on usability instead of implementing an inane amount of protocol specs.
Also the bridges to IRC and slack are very helpful.
Oh and running your own matrix server is much easier as it only needs to expose the https port.
When the goal is to get people that actually solve problems ymmv.
Btw. that is not a dig against management consultants. I honestly think the world needs bullshit.
In my opinion the only advantage certificates from official CAs bring is that clients you have no control over are not MitMed.
They had explosives, weapons, the resolve to sacrifice themselves and tried their best to do as much damage as possible. And they managed to to kill less than 30 people (provisional count).
Of course every death that brought on by this fanatic mob is too much, but we should keep our perspective.
A bus accident in Spain last week left 11 exchange students dead, in the US alone every day more than 50 people die in road accidents.
Of course we should root out the people that try to bomb our freedom away. But don't let us be terrorized by something that doesn't make a statistically recognizable dent in our probability for survival.
I basically means there is not free version of Heroku for serious projects, which is ok. But taken in isolation, the price tag looks pretty bad..