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Microsoft uses React Native in their Start menu because the kids don't know Windows programming anymore.
by aggakake 5mo ago
Microsoft uses React Native in their Start menu because the kids don't know Windows programming anymore.
- petcat 5mo ago[flagged]
- wbxp99 5mo agoThe start menu just.... doesn't open sometimes these days.
- jadamson 5mo agoIt's a laggy resource hog. It's slow to open. You can spam the windows key and watch CPU usage increase. Putting words in someone's mouth to defend that dreck sounds ridiculous, yes.
- petcat 5mo agoWell I don't use Windows so I can't comment on the quality. And I actually don't even really care about it. I was just commenting on the curmudgeonly perspective that young people can't do things right.
- xienze 5mo agoThe more sensible take is “don’t use new technology where it doesn’t make sense.” The start menu should need a web browser engine and a heavy JS framework because…?
- oblio 5mo agoThat new technology could be Zig or Rust, if that's the spiel. Or it could be Ada, old and boring but generally safe. New for the sake of new is vanity.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- colonwqbang 5mo agoAnother way to look at it: Microsoft APIs have fallen from grace. Even their own devs don't dogfood anymore. They download something that Facebook made instead and reimplement the Holy Start Menu using that.
- xboxnolifes 5mo agoLet me introduce you to a new concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
- croes 5mo agoLet's use new technology just because it's new. You see how ridiculous that sounds
- ajayvk 5mo agoMakes no sense if you look at the start menu as an interface to the operating system. Makes perfect sense if you look at it as one more place to show ads
- esafak 5mo agoWindows native app development is a mess https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475938