> With time, React Native could become for mobile what Qt is on the desktop -- and that's high praise in my books.
Sounds like maybe you're not so puzzled after all?
I'm not sure what you're hearing is hype. I think it's just excitement. Nobody is declaring this as The One True Way just yet, but a lot of people (you and I included, it seems) are cautiously optimistic that it could make mobile development a lot better.
The excitement I've witnessed has been more of the "One True Way", "completely unprecented", "cross-platform mobile solved for good" type.
People are talking about how they'll use React Native for new apps without any regard for whether it makes sense in the particular case or not. So I tried to calm down those expectations a bit.
Really? i find that odd considering they said it's not a cross platform tool really, you will still have to write platform specific apps. Just have a mostly one way to do it.
> With time, React Native could become for mobile what Qt is on the desktop -- and that's high praise in my books.
Sounds like maybe you're not so puzzled after all?
I'm not sure what you're hearing is hype. I think it's just excitement. Nobody is declaring this as The One True Way just yet, but a lot of people (you and I included, it seems) are cautiously optimistic that it could make mobile development a lot better.