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Right. That’s why all the software from, say, Microsoft works flawlessly and at peak efficiency.
by elmigranto 1y ago
Right. That’s why all the software from, say, Microsoft works flawlessly and at peak efficiency.
- 9dev 1y agoThat’s not what I said. Only that the responsible engineers know which tradeoffs they make, and are competent enough to do so.
- samrus 1y agoThe decision to use react for the start menu wasnt out of competency. The guy said on twitter that thats what he knew so he used it [1]. Didnt think twice. Head empty no thoughts 1 https://x.com/philtrem22/status/1927161666732523596 https://x.com/philtrem22/status/1927161666732523596
- ldjb 1y agoPlease do share any evidence to the contrary, but it seems that the Tweet is not serious and is not from someone who worked on the Start Menu.
- bool3max 1y agoNo way people on HN are falling for bait Tweets. We're cooked
- mort96 1y agoI found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJNEFHj8b8&t=287s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJNEFHj8b8&t=287s I googled the names of the people holding the talk and they're both employed by Microsoft as software engineers, I don't see any reason to doubt what they're presenting. Not the whole start menu is React Native, but parts are.
- hinkley 1y agoWhy is that somehow worse?
- fsh 1y agoIt is indeed an impressive feat of engineering to make the start menu take several seconds to launch in the age of 5 GHz many-core CPUs, unlimited RAM, and multi-GByte/s SSDs. As an added bonus, I now have to re-boot every couple of days or the search function stops working completely.
- the_real_cher 1y agoFair warning, X has has more trolls than 4chan.
- Henchman21 1y agoPlease, it has more trolls than Middle Earth
- the_real_cher 1y agohaha facts
- 9dev 1y agoThat tweet is fake, and as repeatedly stated by Microsoft engineers, the start menu is written in C# of course, the only part using React native is a promotion widget within the start menu. While even that is a strange move, all the rest is just FUD spread via social media.
- wiseowise 1y ago> the start menu is written in C# of course It is funny how quickly this became normalized. During Vista time everyone was absolutely shitting on awful performance, now that PCs became faster it is apparently fine to use one dog ass slow managed language (C#) over another (JS with RN). Even though RN for Windows is just a thin wrapper over WinRT, but who gives a shit, right? Because JSLOLLOLOL.
- hombre_fatal 1y ago"Hi it's the guy who did <thing everyone hates>" is a Twitter meme.
- hinkley 1y agoOrange Cat Programmer.
- mnw21cam 1y ago[flagged]
- SXX 1y agoThis. It's exactly why Microsoft use modern frameworks such as React Native for their Start Menu used by billions of people every day.
- Nab443 1y agoAnd probably the reason why I have to restart it at least twice a week.
- chamomeal 1y agoWait… please please tell me this is a weirdly specific joke
- kevindamm 1y agoOnly certain live portions of it, and calling it React is a stretch but not entirely wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44124688#:~:text=Just%20the%20%E2%80%9CRecommended%E2%80%9D%20section%20%2D,JS%2Dbacked%20React%20Native%20app. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44124688#:~:text=Just%2... the notion was popularized as an explanation for a CPU core spiking whenever the start menu opens on Win11
- hinkley 1y agoAnd this is why SteamOS is absolutely kicking Windows’ ass on handhelds.
- wiseowise 1y agoWhy? Because they use web based UI that is even worse than RN, according to church of native fanatics?
- hinkley 1y agoBattery and frame rate. There are a couple SteamOS boxes that have windows variants and the windows version is bad. Microsoft has been trying to manage the PR on this, last I heard they claimed the next update would have 2 GB more available memory. 2GB is not good news. That’s evidence that they did not give two shits about mobile before the bad press.