[qwerty456127]

"Ditching Electron" is a clickbait - it doesn't go native, just switches to their own clone which seems very reasonable to me as long as they are capable and willing of maintaining it.

Switching from Angular to React seems weird. What for? AFAIK the only way React is better is there are more developers familiar with it. I wonder if they considered switching to PHP instead /s

[kunagi7]

Skimming through the Tweets, it seems like the rest of the online Office suite uses React and Teams was the outlier using Angular. Somehow it makes sense to use the same framework for everything and save resources.

[MR4D]

So now we know that react will never die! Somewhere in Office 2047 will be some code from it I’m sure!

[treespace8]

When even Microsoft isn't writing native desktop apps anymore, you know it's dead.

[aero-glide2]

Is that why MS Teams is so glitchy? I really wish companies don't abandon native.

[qwerty456127]

I believe companies are abandoning native because Electron lets them reuse the same code and the same developers they employ for the web and also because there is no cross-platform GUI toolkit good enough. Qt could be such a toolkit but you can only choose between very expensive and GPL, and you probably wouldn't even have the GPL version if the company behind wasn't forced to maintain it.

[aero-glide2]

I can understand if MS Teams was some indie dev. Surely MS can just hire more developers?

[solarkraft]

The Office suite is no less glitchy.

[qwerty456127]

Do you mean Office 365? Classic offline Office seems Okay.

[sebazzz]

Well, it does make me wonder. Going from Angular or AngularJS to React is basically rewriting the front-end - also conceptually in regard to React immutability concept.

On the other hand, they have already WebView for Blazor and they need Teams to be cross-platform, also for Linux.

[fuzzy2]

It is not switching from Angular 2+. It truly is still AngularJS. Very different and an incredible leap.

[qwerty456127]

This makes sense. Thanks.

[raarts]

If it's React Native they could eventually move to RN for Windows which is close to native windows.