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Cubacadabra to unify iOS, Android and web apps around a shared Rust core

Cubacadabra's developers plan to rebuild the product's iOS, Android, and web clients as thin native shells that delegate application logic to shared Rust crates rather than reimplementing features separately in Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript. The goal is to move business rules like form validation, save logic, and error handling into one Rust codebase that all three platforms call into, citing Litter's Rust-core approach with UniFFI bindings as a precedent.

andrewarrow.dev · 2026-09-10

Shopify abandons React Native, rebuilds mobile apps with native Swift and Kotlin

Shopify announced it is reversing its 2020 decision to standardize on React Native, moving its mobile engineering back to fully native development using Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android. The company says rapid improvements in AI coding models have erased the productivity cost of maintaining two native codebases, which was the main reason it adopted a cross-platform framework in the first place.

shopify.engineering · 2026-09-10