How Hard Can It Be

Famous last words before every mobile project: "We'll just use React Native/Flutter/whatever-is-trendy-this-week and boom, one codebase for everything!"

Then reality hits. You've got iOS quirks, Android weirdness, different screen sizes, platform-specific APIs, native modules breaking on every update, and that one feature that absolutely requires dropping down to Swift/Kotlin. Your "cross-platform" framework becomes a leaky abstraction wrapped in duct tape and Stack Overflow prayers.

The truth? Most apps claiming to be "cross-platform native" are just web views with extra steps, or they've got so much platform-specific code that you might as well have written two separate apps. The dream of write-once-run-anywhere died somewhere between Java applets and Xamarin.

But hey, at least we keep trying. Next year's framework will definitely be the one that solves it all. Right? Right?