I use React Native and he's mostly right. Coming from the perspective of a native platform, this ecosystem is bat shit insane. It's harder, full of pitfalls, rife with complications, and rickety as all hell.
However, there are also some pretty excellent benefits that come with all the Bad of React Native and JS so for the moment, it can be very much worth the trade offs. I've been working with it for over a year, and for now I'll be sticking with it.
My girlfriend worked on it in a way, and while I thought it was kind of a silly idea we got one for the house.
I've grown to love it as the best jukebox I've ever owned. The speakers absolutely rock, and once you've enjoyed the sweet bliss of being able to tell your jukebox what to do, "Alexa, this song sucks, NEXT!", "Alex, stop!", "Alexa, play '<insert song, artist or album here>'", you'll never want another music player. <Sorry Jeff, but it really is the best feature by far, and that's nothing to be ashamed of.>
I also use it as a cooking timer, and for news in the morning. I can get a good hour out of "Alexa, tell me the news.", from BBC, to NPR, to just the weather for the day. Oh, and "Alexa, Simon Says <insert random things here>", has entertained us quite a bit.
The downsides, it's voice recognition still has trouble when multiple people are speaking, or it's already playing musc if it's really loud. (ie: outside listening to music on the Echo inside) Also, the apps for it just still aren't all that useful, the beat box was fun for about five minutes, and that's it. Possible I just haven't found the good ones yet.
All in all, it's still mostly a toy for early adopters who like to play with gadgets, but I can definitely see how it will eventually be incredibly useful. We now live in a Duplex, and I want a second one for the second floor.
Awhile back I had a Chrome extension that would show a fork of a source repo if it had more recent commits. This was super helpful for finding interesting bits of code. I can't find it anymore, anyone know what I'm talking about?
Not exactly what you're asking for, but `lovely-forks` [1] shows you "notable forks of Github repositories under their names", where "notable" is defined by comparing the number of stars.
I've been working on the Skillz SDK for awhile. If you're a game developer looking for a different way to add social interaction, competition, leaderboards, etc. you may want to check it out.
Thanks - it feels like a missed opportunity within Apple that I'm not sure they're going to get right. I had another friend message this morning saying there is probably a better solution here. Will check out Skillz.
If you haven't heard yet, Uber has recently raised it's fees on UberX drivers from 5% to 15%. At first, I was completely behind them, but they're turning into a pretty cut throat company.
However, there are also some pretty excellent benefits that come with all the Bad of React Native and JS so for the moment, it can be very much worth the trade offs. I've been working with it for over a year, and for now I'll be sticking with it.