https://medium.com/@ryardley/1-why-react-native-needs-c-fb30b46c2468 > Rudi YardleyBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 6Mobile development is inherently a multi-lingual enterprise. When working in React Native we must embrace not only JavaScript, but Objective-C, Java, Swift and Kotlin in order to be effective. Usually this means writing the same functionality in multiple languages. In this series I want to explore an interesting technique for simplifying our codebase by utilising the power of C++ to achieve more maintainable cross platform development. > Other articles in this series: