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Microsoft are quietly merging Office code into their react-native-macos repo
- LinguaBrowse 8y agoThe commit in question, made on 16th July, uses the term "OfficeISS". I can find no mention of this online. Is this a straightforward code-name for their project to re-write their major apps in React, mentioned in the following tweet? https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128 https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128 I asked for clarification on how they were approaching macOS support in React Native, both: 1) in that Twitter thread (to no answer): https://twitter.com/LinguaBrowse/status/1006834843416657920 https://twitter.com/LinguaBrowse/status/1006834843416657920 2) and in the subsequent Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8qqhlz/office_365_ms_teams_skype_code_and_the_edge_debug/e0lr0k1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8qqhlz/office_... (to an answer ignoring the macOS part of my question). Microsoft are clearly going all-in on React Native: 1) TypeScript 3 has plenty of oddly React-specific features (e.g. defaultProps and PropTypes support): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/07/30/announcing-typescript-3-0/#default-props-support https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/07/30/annou... 2) react-native-windows is thriving: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows 3) WinObjC is looking formidable: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC I think the future is bright for Microsoft, cross-platform development, and the React universe..!