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I don't see anything about moving office to react there.

• dx87 8y ago
  The developer who started that twitter thread massively overstated how much react was going to be used in MS Office applications because for some reason he didn't like that a college professor said that scripting languages aren't appropriate for developing an office suite. You can see in the first tweet he says that all of the office applications are being re-written in javascript, and after everyone was thoroughly dissapointed that MS would do that, other developers from MS commented here and on reddit that all of the office tools were going to stay written in C++, and react was only going to be used for some of the UI design, there was never a plan to rewrite everything in react.
  • kyberias 8y ago
    To be fair, he never said Office (the good old Office "client"), he said Office 365, which is the web app version of Office basically. Everyone knows Office is C/C++. Ported to iOS and Android thanks to that.
    • contextfree 8y ago
      Officially Office 365 includes the subscription version of the native client apps. The web apps are called Office Online. Lots of people are confused about this though, as it's confusing.
    • dragonwriter 8y ago
      Office 365 is the subscription service that includes both the evergreen versions of the native Office apps and Office Online.
• icc97 8y ago
  It's at the top of the thread [0]: > All of Office 365 is (almost finished) being completely rewritten in this little scripting language called #JavaScript. [0]: https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128 https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128
  • kyberias 8y ago
    Yeah so Office != Office 365.