steven36 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 By Paul Thurrott A Microsoft employee claimed publicly that “all of Office 365” was being “completely rewritten” in JavaScript. And then all hell broke loose. First things first. It’s not true. So if you were freaking out that Microsoft was somehow abandoning C# and C++ for its most mission-critical offerings, freak out no more. It’s not happening. So what is happening? A Microsoft program manager named Sean Larkin perhaps got a little overly-exuberant on Monday, when he tweeted the following. (I’ve edited out some nonsense.) Quote All of Office 365 is (almost finished) being completely rewritten in this little scripting language called #JavaScript. And Skype And Microsoft Teams And [Visual Studio] Code And all of [Microsoft Edge] Debug Protocol (instead of C++) nbd “nbd,” for you fellow old folks, means “no big deal.” Well, sorry, Sean. This is a big deal. And you got most of that tweet completely and utterly wrong. Without even looking at his follow-ups and clarifications, I can tell you off the top of my head that “all of Office 365” is not being “rewritten” at all, let alone in JavaScript. Most of the new apps that have been added to this service over the past several years are indeed web-based. And most likely use some combination of web technologies, which could include JavaScript. (But also TypeScript, Microsoft’s superior JavaScript-like language.) Skype is not being rewritten in JavaScript. Microsoft Teams is not being rewritten in JavaScript. (It’s already web-based, however, and is being evolved into a Progressive Web App.) Visual Studio Code not being rewritten in JavaScript. It has always been Electron-based. The Edge thing could be correct, who cares. But Edge itself is a native app and is, of course, not being rewritten in JavaScript. Sigh. Anyway, he tried to clarify things in follow-up tweets when his original missive exploded intro controversy. Which shouldn’t have been a surprise. And yet, somehow, it was. “It’s always the tweet’s you’d least expect to blow up,” he noted, obliviously. Anyway, he finally corrected himself on Reddit, blaming Twitter’s character limitations for his many factual errors. “We are not abandoning C++, C#, or any of the other awesome languages, APIs, and toolings that we use across Microsoft,” he clarifies. “Nothing [in Office 365] is converting to ‘all/completely’ JavaScript/TypeScript.” Stupid Twitter and its character limits. Sigh. But seriously, facts matter. And getting something this big this wrong is inexcusable. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debebee Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 Moral of the story Never believe what BS MS employees tweet on the net... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 Why is this guy isn't fired yet? Why is this guy isn't fired yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 That clueless bloke must be my avatar's boss, the PHB.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss Everyone else at Microsoft knows it's going to be rewritten in COBOL and FORTRAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archanus Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I imagine Windows 10 written in Wolfram Language jajaja ... It would be so fast even in PCs with 512MB RAM and Intel Core2Duo jajaja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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