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Other tweets in thread are interesting too: No they are not electron apps. They are compiled to native code. It's now finally one toolchain(#webpack) I
by nickpp 8y ago
Other tweets in thread are interesting too:
No they are not electron apps. They are compiled to native code.
It's now finally one toolchain(#webpack)
It's one codebase and it compiles to:
Web
Android
IOS
MacOS
UWP
WIN32 (only one that uses electron)
- cm2187 8y agoanother tweet on that thread: > how is that even possible? there are tons of legacy features in there, COM/OLE APIs, SDKs, plugin architecture, macro system, VBA interpreter, VBA IDE, graphing components etc. Almost 30 years of development. No way MS is going to rewrite all of that. (Maybe the "mobile" version) I think this is a strong indication that all these technologies are going away.
- Amezarak 8y agoThis would be suicide for Office. I struggle to believe that Microsoft is replacing the full Windows desktop version of Office with a version rewritten in JS. It makes no sense. Many, many, many businesses absolutely rely on the features you're mentioning, and many others that would be a tremendous undertaking to re-implement. There has to be something that's not being communicated right here. Maybe they mean the "lite" versions of the programs.
- osullivj 8y agoStrongly agree. Backwards compatibility has always been a strong suit for MS. Changing that stance is a major strategic shift, and IMHO would be a huge error, similar in scale to IBM's open PC architecture.
- chrisseaton 8y agoI also think it’s extremely unlikely MS is announcing an new native code compiler for JavaScript, something I’m not sure anyone knows how to do with reasonable performance, with a Tweet this casual.
- jhall1468 8y agoWeb Views with native API's. So not truly native compilation.
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- cmjqol 8y agoHas been said many many many times , it's not electron for Windows 10 , it's React Native .NET which bridges the built in Javascript VM with WPF. So it's not a web view for UWP, it's 100% native code.
- chrisseaton 8y ago> it's 100% native code He's said it's not compiling the JavaScript to native code - it's running it in a normal JavaScript JIT. It's not 100% native code.
- ekianjo 8y agoNo mention of Linux despite how much they claim to "love" it.
- thelarkinn 8y agoIf by "They" you mean me, someone who doesn't work on the project itself, but is advising over a toolchain for it. Also, I do not know what the Linux plans are (but hey maybe a great time to voice that special love you have for Linus T. and his masterpiece)!
- donquichotte 8y agoI don't understand what you are trying to say in this comment, can you elaborate? Where should gp voice their "special love" for Linux?
- stoptekingdrugs 8y agoHave you even read the comment you're replying to? Where the hell did you read that OP loves linus torvalds or linux. Microsoft is the one that claims to "love" linux [1], yet they don't release a linux version of office despite it being programmed to be platform independent. Why are you intentionally trying to misrepresent what OP said? [1] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2015/05/06/microsoft-loves-linux/ https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2015/05/06/mi...