Samuel
@samuel.fm
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)
8 2 87SamuelI 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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Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra
Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra(also I mean it goes without saying @samuel.bsky.team but if you need to talk with the MSFT rn desktop team I can put you in touch 👍)
1 5SamuelI met Saad at @reactnativeconnect.bsky.social! His talk got me really excited about the possibilities of out-of-tree platforms
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Saad NajmiHi! I need to check bluesky more lol.
It’s actually the only social media left installed on my newest attempt to limit doomscrolling
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Andri ÓskarssonVery cool project indeed. But as far as I know there is no way build Linux desktop apps with React Native.
That’s what’s been holding me back from using it for desktop apps
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Jeff BachtelOnly proof of concept right now but there’s the Skia renderer.
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hassankhanThey’d be even more goated if Expo worked on them 😀
To be fair you can get Expo working with React Native macOS with a little effort, Windows is a different ballgame
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Charlie CheeverWe want to but are still a little too small right and are worried about spreading too thin.
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Jeff BachtelHmm is react-native usable from wasm because then you could write in the actual best language (Clojure)
lunai really wish they’d roll it into the main react native project. i don’t want to use a second package to add desktop support.