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by cmjqol 2925 days ago
Most of the comments seems to say "it's a bad idea" , keep in mind Microsoft is now using React very intensively for most of their projects as well as angular (VSCode , Windows Server etc... )

Meaning it's not the language the real issue , it's what you do with it.

Also Junior at school are less and less trained with Java and C# but straight up with JS or PHP , so it will be much easier to integrate juniors on this re-written version of office rather the pile of legacy C++ / COM / C# bridges mess they have right now.
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walshemj 2925 days ago
Mail is one of the key parts of the internet no offence you don't want someone straight out some boot camp of dubious provenance having any input into what language or the spec of a MUA or MTA.

Any new developers on this need to have experience working with email standards and a good knowledge of C++ / C not some fracking scripting language!

And as some one who used to do international interconnect I think I have some valid input here - this has shades of the amusing project spitfire fiasco in the late 80's.

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pducks32 2925 days ago
This is literally the same argument of the tweet's first poster (to which the linked tweet is a reply). This is just simply not true. I know many people who make mail apps for some big big companies. They have CS degrees and would admit they suck at C++ (I wouldn't even mention C) but they are great at Python
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walshemj 2925 days ago
I was talking about outlook and exchange not writing some trivial script to send a registration email here.
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cmjqol 2925 days ago
> no offence you don't want someone straight out some boot camp of dubious provenance

None taken .

My point is Microsoft is shifting to make it easier to separate their apps into clear layers . Coders from bootcamps can deal with the UI and some logic , C++ Engineers will deal with back-end and the mess that office is, and expose some API in JavaScript for them.

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AnIdiotOnTheNet 2925 days ago
> Coders from bootcamps can deal with the UI and some logic

Great, so the UIs will continue to get slower and more broken. What a glorious future we have to look forward to.

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