I think there's a lot of proof that it does work, given there's 300,000 Ionic apps, tons in production.
I downvoted you not because I don't agree that Native will be compelling but because I hate to see all this hate that's come out against hybrid apps in general that's even been propagated by React Native devs.
Webviews will get there. WKWebView is already a huge step forward. I think Native is great, but it's not a clear winner in many cases. I even like "learn once apply everywhere" (though it doesn't really go against the web in any way), but I would say the mountain of hybrid apps out there actually disprove that it "just doesn't work".
Yeah I'm sorry, but web views are incredibly substandard to native apps. I've never found I hybrid app that I found comparable to its native counterpart. Simple things like scrolling can be very spotty most of the time.
>> Simple things like scrolling can be very spotty most of the time.
That's just FUD. Only hybrid apps that use non-native scrolling are jittery, and for years now you can use '-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch` to get native scrolling with bouncing.
I downvoted you not because I don't agree that Native will be compelling but because I hate to see all this hate that's come out against hybrid apps in general that's even been propagated by React Native devs.
Webviews will get there. WKWebView is already a huge step forward. I think Native is great, but it's not a clear winner in many cases. I even like "learn once apply everywhere" (though it doesn't really go against the web in any way), but I would say the mountain of hybrid apps out there actually disprove that it "just doesn't work".