Shopify Ditches React Native for Swift and Kotlin, Citing AI Coding Agents
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-09-11
Shopify is moving its mobile apps from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases. The 2020 rationale (no duplicate work, cross-stack devs, less parity-chasing) still stands, but AI agents can now handle enough implementation, translation, testing, and review that maintaining two native codebases is no longer the deciding factor. Its RN libraries react-native-skia and flash-list are finding new homes; restyle will be archived at the end of 2026.
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