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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by sebazzz on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:16AM (#17301495)
Javascript can still mean that Typescript is used.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by Sammi on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:52AM (#17301676)
I'm willing to bet money that MS is actually using Typescript for almost all their Javascript.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by hellofunk on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:38AM (#17302441)
I accept that bet! Let's discuss offline.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by sno0ks on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:57AM (#17303674)
But if somebody writes in Objective C, the C parts don't make it C.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by crest on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:38PM (#17304676)
They do. Objective C is a superset of C.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by sno0ks on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:01PM (#17305531)
C++ used to be a superset of C too before they diverged, but Objective C and C++ are/were viewed, correctly, as different languages from the same family.
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