Shopify rebuilt the Shop app natively in Swift and Kotlin with 6 engineers in 12 weeks
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-26
For two decades small teams chose web apps because maintaining native codebases was untenable, accepting React Native fidelity hits. That constraint is gone: Shopify rebuilt the Shop app natively in Swift and Kotlin with just six engineers in twelve weeks, weakening the case for cross-platform frameworks.
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