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Dave DeLong Oct 27, 2024

Was chatting with a friend today and was finally able to vocalize one of the big things that's been nibbling at my brain.

When it comes to building mobile apps, where is our equivalent of Wordpress or Shopify or Drupal? Why is it that every single app must start over from "Hello world" and build from there?

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Kyle Hughes

@davedelong I think it has something to do with there being no first-party platform (or concept, obviously) for the web. Not that UIKit or Jetpack Compose are equivalent to what you mentioned, but their existence seems to remove some of the oxygen from the ecosystem that is required to get there, for better or worse. Something about raising the floor… I don’t know.