In 2020, Shopify made a bet that resonated across the developer world by writing mobile code once in React Native instead of duplicating every feature in Swift and Kotlin. On Thursday, the company said it’s going back . You read that correctly; the company is ditching cross-platform mobile apps for full native development, and it’s leaning heavily on AI agents to do the heavy lifting. Its consumer app, Shop, took just 12 weeks to go from proof of concept to a fully native production release. Next up is the far more grueling merchant app, a 300-plus screen beast that relies heavily on deep iOS...

Source: The New Stack