▲ 2 ▼ Is software getting worse? (blog.ploeh.dk) submitted 3 years ago by canpolat@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev 23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] demesisx@programming.dev 3 points 3 years ago (3 children) Yes. Case in point: there are at least 10 Lemmy iOS apps. I'll give you ten guesses on which ones are actually native Swift... There are a quite a few Android apps in progress too. How many are written in Kotlin? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] aport@programming.dev 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Jerboa is a native android app, so that's nice. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] philm@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago Yet it still feels sloppy (and I couldn't find why to the defense of Jerboa, I skimmed through the relevant code but couldn't find immediate issues and there's an open issue: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/445) I don't get why, with so much hardware power we still have these issues... permalink fedilink source parent [–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.astaluk.icu 0 points 3 years ago Are any of them out of Test Flight yet? permalink fedilink source parent [–] alxhghs@programming.dev -1 points 3 years ago (1 child) Voyager isn’t native and it’s good. I’m not totally sure what the hate is for React Native for apps like this. It’s an abstraction over Swift, it’s still Swift under the hood isn’t it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] demesisx@programming.dev 3 points 3 years ago In my experience, Voyager is still pretty buggy too. For example, try editing a post then go to do anything else after the fact. I always have to restart the whole app when I go to edit a post I made. They have a ton more features than anyone else but there are still tons of bugs. react native is another layer and lags behind the dev of swift by at least a year. This is a huge problem for new api's like SwiftUI, in my experience. Ps. Native is ALWAYS better than an approximation of native. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aport@programming.dev 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Jerboa is a native android app, so that's nice. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] philm@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago Yet it still feels sloppy (and I couldn't find why to the defense of Jerboa, I skimmed through the relevant code but couldn't find immediate issues and there's an open issue: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/445) I don't get why, with so much hardware power we still have these issues... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] philm@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago Yet it still feels sloppy (and I couldn't find why to the defense of Jerboa, I skimmed through the relevant code but couldn't find immediate issues and there's an open issue: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/445) I don't get why, with so much hardware power we still have these issues... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.astaluk.icu 0 points 3 years ago Are any of them out of Test Flight yet? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] alxhghs@programming.dev -1 points 3 years ago (1 child) Voyager isn’t native and it’s good. I’m not totally sure what the hate is for React Native for apps like this. It’s an abstraction over Swift, it’s still Swift under the hood isn’t it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] demesisx@programming.dev 3 points 3 years ago In my experience, Voyager is still pretty buggy too. For example, try editing a post then go to do anything else after the fact. I always have to restart the whole app when I go to edit a post I made. They have a ton more features than anyone else but there are still tons of bugs. react native is another layer and lags behind the dev of swift by at least a year. This is a huge problem for new api's like SwiftUI, in my experience. Ps. Native is ALWAYS better than an approximation of native. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] demesisx@programming.dev 3 points 3 years ago In my experience, Voyager is still pretty buggy too. For example, try editing a post then go to do anything else after the fact. I always have to restart the whole app when I go to edit a post I made. They have a ton more features than anyone else but there are still tons of bugs. react native is another layer and lags behind the dev of swift by at least a year. This is a huge problem for new api's like SwiftUI, in my experience. Ps. Native is ALWAYS better than an approximation of native. permalink fedilink source parent