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Shopify's exit from React Native signals AI's need for native performance
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from The Pragmatic Engineer1d ago
Shopify’s shift suggests that the abstraction layers of cross-platform tools are becoming a bottleneck for sophisticated AI experiences. If you are building for high-performance on-device AI, native development may be necessary to access the required hardware APIs and neural engines.
Takeaways
- Cross-platform layers can throttle local AI performance and hardware access.
- Native development offers the granular control needed for complex AI integrations.
- Re-evaluate your stack if your roadmap depends on specialized on-device AI.
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