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Sep 19, 2019 43 min

Cross-platform code sharing via C++ at Dropbox with Eyal Guthmann

from Inside iOS Dev Hosted by Andrew Rohn, Alex Bush

Recently, Dropbox published a blog illustrating the costs & overhead of using C++ to code share between iOS and Android. The author, Eyal Guthmann from Dropbox, joins us to elaborate more on the topic. Was the problem C++? Why couldn't Dropbox simply hire more C++ developers? Why not React Native or Flutter? Is cross platform mobile development simply not viable? Interested in C++ or mobile development? Dropbox is hiring! Dropbox C++ drop article Running into problems with shared cross platform code in JavaScript is the episode where Alex talked about cross platform code shareability issues using Javascript Sunsetting React Native Airbnb article announcing that they are dropping React Native Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at [email protected]

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Recently, Dropbox published a blog illustrating the costs & overhead of using C++ to code share between iOS and Android. The author, Eyal Guthmann from Dropbox, joins us to elaborate more on the topic. Was the problem C++? Why couldn't Dropbox simply hire more C++ developers? Why not React Native or Flutter? Is cross platform mobile development simply not viable?

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