Why Don't We Use React Native in 2020?

As a team of people building bespoke apps, we have used _many_ technologies over the last 11+ years. We have shipped Apps to the iOS App Store and Google Play Store using 5 different methods: PhoneGap/Cordova, Java (Native Android), Objective-C (Native iOS), Swift (Native iOS), React Native and now Flutter!

The question of the "Similarities and Differences between React Native and Flutter" recently came up: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-flutter/issues/20 we need to write about it _comprehensively_ and _publish_ our writing so that others can see the _answers_.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/comments/e6fo14/why_debugging_react_native_such_a_pain


In the most recent RN Community feedback thread (June 2019): https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/issues/134#issuecomment-501356592 _many_ of the comments are still about performance, size of apps, memory usage, documentation, testing and debugging.

The issue that _specifically_ affects us @dwyl is the **Slow `TextInput`** ...
https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/issues/134#issuecomment-501356592


https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/20119

Hybrid vs. Native (_from the perspective of the creators of the Ionic framework_):
https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3776657/Ionic%20eBook%20-%20Hybrid%20vs%20Native.pdf