Shopify Ditches React Native

OttawaShopify will rewrite its apps in Swift and Kotlin.

It reverses the 2020 bet that made Shopify React Native’s best-known adopter.

Shopify says AI coding tools now let two native codebases cost what one cross-platform one used to.

Shopify’s exit leaves Meta’s React Native without its highest-profile public adopter.

How each outlet framed it

Hacker News: emphasizes LLM capability shift changed core economics: improved AI coding reduced cost of building same feature twice in Swift/Kotlin