Why is this trend going on with using js in domains where it previously was not a component?
Is it to ease shipping new features? To make it easier for contributors once they make the application open source? Good PR?
Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
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#22Excel is already a dog in term of realculating large spreadsheets. I think we will need Intel's 28 cores at 5GHz monster!
Maybe they'll just make it as slow as Open/LibreOffice's recalculation to be competitive...
Do you have an example spreadsheet that shows the slowness in LibreOffice?
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#23Excel is already a dog in term of realculating large spreadsheets. I think we will need Intel's 28 cores at 5GHz monster!
If you use Excel for large spreadsheets you are probably not using the right tool.
You and I know how to code. Most excel users do not. There is just simply not enough programmers in the world to do what all business users achieve and run on Excel.
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#24Why is this trend going on with using js in domains where it previously was not a component? Is it to ease shipping new features? To make it easier for contributors once they make the application open source? Good PR?
Aside from the view layer, probably due to the motivation to have a common code base across web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux.
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#25FWIW, I personally like the direction Microsoft is going in. I look forward to seeing where this transformation leads.
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#26Office for Windows (WIN32) will be an Electron app? I have no words. edit, since there seems to be some confusion: I am explicitly talking about the WIN32 variant, which he confirmed to be based on Electron.
From what I understand they are using React Native. I too find it hard to believe they would drop the native Windows and OSX versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, for apps written in React Native. But Microsoft has offered many surprises lately...
We're talking 50M SLOC and 20+ years of development for native platforms. I highly doubt that they will let that go in favor of an JS app.
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#27It says that the the JavaScript is compiled to native code. That's not something you get from React Native today is it? Have they implemented a new native code compiler for JavaScript? I wonder what compiler technology it uses.
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#28The tweet that the OP is quoting/responding to is interesting:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jdgarciauc3m/status/1005768121230...
> 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.
I honestly thought this was a satire tweet. I guess I just don't associate even a CS bachelor's degree with writing that kind of software. I mean, it can, but there are more theoretical tracks that don't involve writing a OS/DBMS.
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#29This is good news for those of us who have to deal with VSTO, MSI packaging and all that cack. At last it might not feel like being buggered by a traffic cone repeatedly.
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#30Seems like a very strange move... But it’s a tweet. Might not mean anything really.