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The Costs of Doing Your Own Thing

16 August 2019

Dropbox recently wrote about dropping code sharing between iOS and Android, moving to using each platform’s native language instead.

By writing code in a non-standard fashion, we took on overhead that we would have not had to worry about had we stayed with the widely used platform defaults

Don’t underestimate the costs of doing your own thing.

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I'm Kristian Glass. CTO as a Service via Moorhen Solutions Ltd. PyCon UK Treasurer, UK Python Association Trustee.

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