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I wonder if microsoft will rewrite github with c#

• wtmt 8y ago
  It could also switch to React, since the MS Office team has switched over to it for the online platform. [1] [1]: https://react-etc.net/entry/microsoft-office-rewrite-to-react-js-nears-completion https://react-etc.net/entry/microsoft-office-rewrite-to-reac...
  • bri3d 8y ago
    React is an in-browser component/templating/state management framework. Apples to oranges. Furthermore, I don't see GitHub as a great application for an in-browser state management system. Rich state frameworks are great when you're making an system with a real load of state in the frontend. For example, a spreadsheet or a rich word processor or design layout application. For an application with little mutable user state in the frontend, all you do by using a full-on UI framework is add complexity and introduce a huge state-synchronization / distributed systems problem, as well as introduce the need for complex/hacky server-side rendering workarounds for users, snapshots, and search engines which don't have full runtime capability. Using React on your blog is almost certainly a mistake and using React for GitHub feels like it's right on the edge of being one as well.
    • pytyper2 8y ago
      They were probable referring to the web implementations of office, it's the only interpretation that makes sense in my mind. Were you aware there was an online version of office?
• jrs95 8y ago
  Highly unlikely. That would be a massive waste of resources.
  • tonyedgecombe 8y ago
    It wouldn't be the first time though, I seem to remember they got bogged down in migrating HotMail after they bought it.