The bridge is dead, long live JSI

React Native's old architecture is dead. Since 0.82 no app can run on the bridge, because React Native ignores newArchEnabled=false. 0.85 deleted CatalystInstanceImpl, the Android bridge's core class. The interop layer for legacy modules stays "for the foreseeable future". The obvious reading is that the bridge was slow. Meta's own numbers refuse it. The new architecture rendered 5.000 views on an…