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(Ive never been able to say this yet) πŸ™‹Well Actually!πŸ™‹ All of Office 365 is (almost finished) being completely rewritten in this little scripting language called #JavaScript. And Skype And Microsoft Teams And And all of Debug Protocol (instead of C++) nbd
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Tip of the day. Scripting languages as first programming language for CS bachelors are WRONG. You are not able to write an OS, a DBMS, or even an Office suite with an scripting language.
And in case you were wondering. This is the goal and beauty. (At least the pieces I can talk about 😏)
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Replying to @andrewvijay @code and @MSEdgeDev
No they are not electron apps. They are compiled to native code. It's now finally one toolchain(#webpack) It's one codebase and it compiles to: Web Android IOS MacOS UWP WIN32 (only one that uses electron)
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To clarify since this someone exploded a bit πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ 1. We've been talking about our use of react-native and react-native-windows for a bit now! Here's the git repo! Feel free to learn more! github.com/Microsoft/reac 2. The "never have been able to say before" pt was 'Well Actually'
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Clarification #5 (sorry team) πŸ™‡πŸ™‡πŸ™‡πŸ™‡πŸ™‡πŸ™‡πŸ™‡πŸ™‡: Original tweet was trying to portray that we have a lot of killer projects that run on JavaScript (in 's case [and has no plans to change], TypeScript and Electron]), and that its a great language to start w/.
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