Samuel
hello from the fabric build. the performance improvement is actually insane 🤯
hailey@hailey.at· 5 May 2025
i’m really excited to ship fabric. been using it today and scrolling my tl is buttery smooth. videos feel a lot better. things Just Work. really impressive stuff
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Samuel
too bad xcodebuild caching is completely broken (Apple’s fault)
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Samuel
Zed people (Zedders?) how can I make it so `#/components/Typography` is always the first option, `react-native` is the second, and never suggest reanimated internals
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Samuel
people are not ready for exactly how anticlimactic bsky-sans-bsky is going to be
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Samuel
turns out you can actually make decentralised social that doesn’t make a bunch of fundamental compromises that makes the UX suck ass. who knew!
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Samuel
anti-climactic = good, to be clear. your reaction to being on a different appview should be “wait, what changed? it seems to be exactly the same in every single way?”
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Samuel
react-native-windows/macos is insanely goated. it’s like if you took the best parts of electron (getting to write code in typescript, the best language) and removed the worst part (the web browser)
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Samuel
I learned recently that the reason Microsoft maintains react-native-macos is for Office - obviously, those are multi-platform apps! might as well use React Native
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Samuel
has anything of note ever been built with Kotlin Multiplatform? I didn’t see anything I’ve ever used on their showcase page
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Samuel
I’d like to dunk on them in a respectful, accurate and representative way if possible
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Samuel
showcase claims the Forbes app is 80% KMP. let’s try it out
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— POSTS DELETED — It appears I was using a region-locked version of the Forbes app and most likely not the one referred to in the showcase. I have deleted the post criticising the app, since I don’t think it was necessarily KMP
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Samuel
anyway in conclusion, seems like KMP is a reasonable but not super ambitious tool for sharing non-UI Kotlin code between platforms. Compose MP is the actual RN competitor, but is too early to really dunk on and has not got much adoption yet. thread over, goodnight!
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Samuel
heartbreaking: I fucked up my PDS config so I can’t make fun of Shreyan until I fix it 💔
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