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Building mobile apps today can feel stuck in the past. Back in 2016, as a mobile engineer, I couldn’t get enough of Swift and Kotlin. They were sharp, powerful tools. But the landscape’s shifted.

At the Build 2026 developer conference, Microsoft encouraged developers to build more native apps for Windows 11.

To fix performance issues, Microsoft is replacing sluggish React Native and WebView components in Windows 11 shell with fast ...