What really grinds my gears is Microsoft replacing native apps with Electron. Trillion dollar company who is so cash strapped they have no choice but to punt to the easy development path.

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cosmic_cheese 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The thing that makes Microsoft's case particularly annoying is that they have demonstrated how they can develop half-decent Electron apps with VS Code, but have simply elected not to with anything that's not VS Code.

Like yes, I'd prefer native and MS can certainly afford to take that path, but they can't even be bothered to make sure that most of their Electron apps land on the upper half of the quality spectrum.

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skydhash 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> they can develop half-decent Electron apps with VS Code,

Only if you don't compare it with any native or quasi native editors like Notepad++ or Sublime text. And Emacs has been cross-platform for decades.

	▲	ToucanLoucan 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Also they bloated it to death. VSCodium gets you the same solid core app without the oodles and oodles of useless "features" Microsoft has bolted to it.

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xp84 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yikes. What apps have they been doing this with?

	▲	0cf8612b2e1e 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Turns out I was mistaken. Outlook was rewritten for Webview, not Electron. So still took a native application and turned it into web nonsense, but I got the specifics wrong. Regardless, there are a bunch of new visual glitches in the release, with regressed performance all over the place.

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ToucanLoucan 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What's extra egregious there is I do understand the logic because developing for Windows is such a fucking nightmare, that they're also responsible for.

	▲	xp84 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I assure you, developing for competing platforms is also a fucking nightmare... that's something Microsoft has no monopoly on!