What does HackerNews think of componentkit?

A React-inspired view framework for iOS.

Language: Objective-C++

xhp was honestly pretty nice - it was something watching the rapid codemods transform the language.

There was also ComponentKit, which was used heavily in fbobjc: https://github.com/facebook/componentkit

Origami eng here:

Swift wasn't ready when we started a couple years ago. We actually used some swift for internal things and it has been a bit of a pain, eg with the macOS SDK update for Xcode 8. Combining ObjC and C++ you get a lot of the benefits of swift like functional programming / static type checking etc, paying a similar price in compile time.

It would be hard to achieve the elegance of ComponentKit syntax (https://github.com/facebook/componentkit) in swift though. It lets us express the UI in a functional way :D

I'm curious, can somebody talk about the differences between using React Native vs ComponentsKit?

It seems ComponentsKit is a very specific to iOS as opposed to React.

https://github.com/facebook/componentkit