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On an (un)related note, I only new realized they have been all this time rewriting Thunderbird in JavaScript.
by soco 6y ago
On an (un)related note, I only new realized they have been all this time rewriting Thunderbird in JavaScript.
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- galaxyLogic 6y agoThat's not unrelated I think. It is interesting. Does it mean it will be slow? Does it mean it is basically based on Node.js?
- johannes1234321 6y agoIt already is written in KavaScript for large parts. However Firefox/Gecko deprecated the XUL UI system, which is used by Thunderbird, so they have to swap the UI toolkit to something else.
- dblohm7 6y agoThunderbird already was written using JavaScript; all Gecko-based applications are.