The Magic Behind Cubacadabra
The article discusses a software development strategy called 'cubacadabra' that advocates for using Rust as a shared core for cross-platform applications. By moving business logic into Rust crates, developers can maintain native UI controls on iOS, Android, and web while reducing code duplication.
Why it matters
This approach addresses the 'write once, run anywhere' challenge in mobile and web development, potentially increasing efficiency and consistency for cross-platform teams.
For game developers Rust people iOS, Android, JS
Before abracadabra was something you said over a top hat, it was something you wore around your neck. In the ancient Roman Liber Medicinalis , attributed to Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, the prescription was to write the word repeatedly, removing a letter each time, and wear the result as a charm against fever. An unusually literal approach to making a problem smaller.
If you've shipped iOS, Android, and web versions of something, you know the usual routine. Build the feature in Swift. Build it again in Kotlin. Build it again in JavaScript. Each version gets its own validation, requests, loading state, and error handling. They talk to the same backend, so we call them three clients of one product. We still wrote much of the product three times.
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