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by treespace8 1820 days ago
When even Microsoft isn't writing native desktop apps anymore, you know it's dead.
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aero-glide2 1820 days ago
Is that why MS Teams is so glitchy? I really wish companies don't abandon native.
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qwerty456127 1820 days ago
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.
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aero-glide2 1819 days ago
I can understand if MS Teams was some indie dev. Surely MS can just hire more developers?
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solarkraft 1820 days ago
The Office suite is no less glitchy.
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qwerty456127 1818 days ago
Do you mean Office 365? Classic offline Office seems Okay.
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sebazzz 1819 days ago
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.

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