The Death of "Write ONce, Run Everywhere"

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Argues that “Write Once, Run Everywhere” fails in practice because PhoneGap/Cordova/Trigger.io force webviews with single-threaded rendering, memory limits, plugin gaps and visible UI mismatches; hybrid apps work well as prototyping but not for polished UX. Presents concrete alternatives: React Native (native controls, no web views no CSS no HTML but alpha and Android support lagging), NativeScript and Titanium, compares code-sharing tradeoffs and engineering pain points so teams can decide whether to accept two native codebases or keep hybrid speed.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:11A Eulogy
3. 2:05Goals of writing Hybrid applications
4. 2:18Build: Run it cross- platform
5. 4:31UX Gap
6. 5:55Design Issues
7. 7:43Code issues
8. 8:20The Core
9. 9:14SINGLE THREAD
10. 9:30Memory management
11. 11:46Facebook introduces react-native
12. 16:51A JavaScript V8 engine sounds familiar...
13. 17:56Gotchas
14. 19:04The future

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