It's so sad to see such techniques just because people can control themselves. Ok, a life with a full list of friends on facebook is fake, but the opposite is fake too. It's just another hypster minimalist move. Some tortured guy looking for meaning in his life, as all of us, but with enough paternalistic arrogance to pretend he knows better than us what's good for us, usual story.
This is a discussion website. Being vindictive isn't helpful, but niether is criticism inherently bad. An awful lot of the good content here is experts being critical of new ideas.
The comparaison with JS is perfect.
Like JS is the asm of the web ecosystem (no one wants to write its code just in JS, we generate it instead), default android and IOS way of programming have to be be generated.
Try Xamarin [0] or the newcomer flutter [1]. It's such a pain in the ass to dev in raw android or raw ios, use multi platform sdks.
And if you start with xamarin, you can target windows phone too, even if nobody cares ;-)
I've had some terrible experiences with Xamarin. The tooling is very rudimentary compared to Android Studio, performance is subpar, app size is huge, and development is so slow it's maddening. I wouldn't recommend it other than for some very specific use cases. I'd much rather deal with just plain old Android issues than wrapped-by-Xamarin Android issues and Xamarin-specific issues.
Well written. I like the tone. I think it's a particular case of a global concern : what the purpose of life and how to live it well ? Even if i'm very different and put my efforts in other domains than "looking smart for other people". I'm asking myself similar questions: doubt about past choices, job, city, and so on.
At the point you get to 'self-actualization', you realize that it's best done by helping others get to that point. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a pyramid scheme.
