React-Native Is Dead... Thanks to AI.

Shopify backed React Native for half a decade, and now it's going back to native Swift and Kotlin because coding agents made building the same app twice cheap. I've made the same switch myself. Here's how they're migrating without shipping AI slop, and why every React Native developer should be paying attention. 🔗 Relevant Links https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 0:00 Shopify is going back to native 1:44 Why Shopify switched 2:10 Helix: stopping the AI slop 3:18 Native is slow for agents to test 3:38 Headless logic and a CLI 4:24 Agents driving the app in real time 4:53 The Shop app shipped native 5:00 The caveats 5:18 FlashList, Skia and Restyle handed off 5:45 The end of cross-platform?