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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by ksec on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:51AM (#17302532)
I wonder if they are using TypeScript.

The old Javascript were very bad, recent Javascripts were bad, today's Javascript are OK, future Javascript / TypeScript is actually pretty decent.

Of course I do hope something else has taken its place.

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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by randomname2 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:34AM (#17302858)
The linked Twitter thread states that they do use TypeScript: https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006861097729585154
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