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Today I do backend work mainly in Linux environments and occasionally some Android, but I still remember my first internship doing Windows Phone development. I
by abvdasker 7y ago
Today I do backend work mainly in Linux environments and occasionally some Android, but I still remember my first internship doing Windows Phone development.
It was amazing. The lockstep integration with Visual Studio was head and shoulders above Android and iOS, even to this day. They did JavaScript for native dev via WinJS well before React Native was a thing. I found the tile-based UI refreshingly different and visually appealing. I'm not sure that the world would be better off with Microsoft as a major player in the smartphone space but they definitely created a great operating system.