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The Skype engineering team is an acquisition with relative autonomy, and is always making weird choices. Wouldn't take that too seriously.
by dingle_thunk 7y ago
The Skype engineering team is an acquisition with relative autonomy, and is always making weird choices. Wouldn't take that too seriously.
- htormey 7y agoMicrosoft Office has gone all in with React Native as well. Here is a recent comment from Andy Coates talking about MS Office Android performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413046 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413046 Other article talking about it: https://blog.appfigures.com/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-react-native-for-their-mobile-apps/ https://blog.appfigures.com/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-react-n...
- pjmlp 7y agoThey have addressed this at BUILD. Xamarin for .NET devs, React Native for C++ devs (a bit like QML/Qt). Office naturally fits the C++ devs way.
- WorldMaker 7y agoOffice also has to make sure that things work on the web given they also support all the Office.com O365 versions of their apps. That's another reason they'd prefer React Native (for React Native Web) to Xamarin. But the Office team is also a right tool for each job group and has both Xamarin and React Native apps and telling the difference between them is getting tougher to do. You can already integrate React Native components inside a Xamarin app and vice versa because they each can look like native components to each other, and it's not entirely an either/or decision.