Shopify went back to native. Coinbase job listings say they're rewriting in Swift and Kotlin. Discord is rebuilding its apps in Rust. And now Expo's own CEO, Charlie Cheever, has released Exact: a Rust app framework built for AI agents, not for React developers. In this video I explain what Exact is (Contract, the ten agent commands, the clock trick), build a todo app with it on web, macOS and the iOS Simulator using Claude Code, and say what I think this means for React Native. Exact is pre-alpha / pre-1.0 and changes daily. The benchmark numbers in this video are Charlie's own and haven't been independently reproduced yet. 鈴憋笍 Chapters 0:00 Is React Native dead? 0:29 Why now 2:33 What Exact actually is 4:22 I tried it (with Claude Code) 8:06 Reading between the lines 10:26 What the community says 11:36 My verdict 馃敆 Sources Exact on GitHub: https://github.com/expo/exact Charlie Cheever's thread: https://x.com/ccheever/status/2119764253242695754 Expo's post (pre-alpha): https://x.com/expo/status/2119805185967169720 Shopify, "Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify": https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native InfoQ on Shopify's move: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/shopify-drops-react-native/ Discord rebuilding in Rust (heise): https://www.heise.de/en/news/Discord-is-rebuilding-in-Rust-leaving-React-and-Electron-behind-11516113.html Discord rebuilding in Rust (Inven Global): https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/28182 Coinbase job listing (no official announcement): https://cryptojobslist.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-native-mobile-remote-usa-at-coinbase Nolan Lawson, "The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks": https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/ Reactions in the video: Aaron Grider https://x.com/aarongrider/status/2119837925865353335 路 Josh Elman https://x.com/joshelman/status/2119953737339011568 路 Sanket Sahu https://x.com/sanketsahu/status/2119793945647673791 路 Jamon Holmgren https://x.com/jamonholmgren/status/2119828776083399167 路 James Ide https://x.com/JI/status/2119857454632894573 馃摵 My React Native stack for 2026: https://youtu.be/LZFEr9QDIVg 馃敟 React Native Zero to Hero: https://galaxies.dev/missions/zero-to-hero ############################# 鉂わ笍 You can also find me on: X: https://twitter.com/schlimmson TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@simongrimm_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simongr ############################# #ReactNative #Expo #Exact #Rust #ClaudeCode #AIAgents #AppDevelopment