Q&A with the React Native team

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New architecture goes into beta today with a target of stable by year end, asks users to try it and file issues; rollout already powers thousands of screen surfaces across Meta products. Team recommends use Expo for many apps, accepts small PRs and larger RFC proposals on GitHub, and reports real progress on release quality and community response. Engineering work spans ~10+ languages (Objective‑C/Swift, Java/Kotlin, C++, Ruby, assembly) and the runtime is actively stabilizing.

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1. 0:00Introduction and panel intro
2. 2:13Panelist introductions
3. 7:09New architecture rollout update
4. 8:38React Native history and growth
5. 10:22React Native Frameworks and Expo
6. 12:10React Native and web convergence
7. 13:58Future of React Native at Meta
8. 16:48Contributing to React Native
9. 18:38Languages and complexity in React Native
10. 22:14Improvements in React Native
11. 25:23Spicy question: Instagram and React Native
12. 26:27React Native Web role
13. 27:51React Native 1.0 release plans
14. 29:16Closing and thanks

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