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		pjmlp on Feb 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: React Native at Instagram Tizen is a joke for app developers, it was already rebooted so many times, no one serious would spend a second trying to target the platform. 1 - Meego reborn as Tizen 2 - Tizen gets the Bada C++ SDK, with its Symbian C++ like flavour 3 - Enlightment guys join Tizen 4 - C++ SDK gets kicked out and replaced by Enlightment C libraries 5 - Developers complain that Tizen 2.3 drops C++ and is a C only experience 6 - Samsung announces support for .NET Core as high level native Tizen tooling Really, what SDK are they going to release next?!

realharo on Feb 7, 2017 [–]

There was also a period of only allowing "HTML5 apps" (during the jQuery era no less) if I remember it correctly.

pjmlp on Feb 7, 2017 | [–]

It is still the case when targeting Tizen TV devices.

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