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4/16/2025

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Bring Your Favorite Language to React Native

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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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Wrocław, Poland

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Bring Your Favorite Language to React Native

Learn how to integrate native libraries in React Native, without TurboModules. Robert shares a practical approach using WebAssembly and introduces PolyGen.

Date

16 April 2025

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Time

Location

Wrocław, Poland

Online

Bring Your Favorite Language to React Native

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React Universe Meetup

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Robert Pasiński

React Native Developer

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Callstack

Featuring

Robert Pasiński

React Native Developer

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Callstack

Ever hit a wall trying to integrate native libraries in React Native that aren’t written in C or C++? Robert Pasinski, Senior Software Engineer at Callstack, shares how to break past those limitations, without writing a single TurboModule.

Presented at the React Universe Meetup in Wrocław (April 2024), this talk introduces PolyGen, a new toolkit that uses WebAssembly to embed code written in languages like Rust, Go, and even COBOL into your React Native apps. Robert dives into performance trade-offs, platform compatibility, build system headaches, and how WebAssembly provides a unified ABI that makes it all… just work.

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