Why Shopify dropped React Native: AI agents rewrote the Shop app natively in 12 weeks
The Pragmatic Engineer · rss · 2026-09-29
Shopify is abandoning React Native because AI now writes native mobile code well enough that cross-platform abstractions add more cost than they save — it rewrote the Shop app natively in just 12 weeks. The article traces the 2020 rationale, the Airbnb precedent, and what it means for Kotlin Multiplatform.
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