Shopify Drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin as AI Changes Cross-Platform Development Tradeoffs

Bruno Couriol — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:45:00 GMT

Shopify recently announced it is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship apps in Swift and Kotlin. With the significant jump in the quality of AI models, Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali reassessed Shopify’s commitment to React Native, estimating that the benefit/cost ratio of maintaining native codebases across mobile platforms was now above that of using an abstraction layer.

By Bruno Couriol

Open-Source Project Brings Full iOS 27 Virtualization to Apple Silicon

Sergio De Simone — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT

The open-Source project vphone-cli enables a full iOS 27 system to run as a virtual machine on Apple Silicon. Built on Apple's own Virtualization.framework rather than traditional emulation, the project opens up new possibilities for security research, reverse engineering, and automated iOS testing.

By Sergio De Simone

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Shopify Drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin as AI Changes Cross-Platform Development Tradeoffs

Open-Source Project Brings Full iOS 27 Virtualization to Apple Silicon