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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by zip1234 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:55PM (#17304855)
You mean JavaScript not Office 365 right? They are working on compiling C# to Web Assembly FYI.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by bpicolo on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:07PM (#17304986)
IE11 will never support wasm, so I suspect wasm isn't their first choice eh
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by irrational on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:23PM (#17305170)
This is a good point. MS has agreed to support IE11 until 2025. I'm not sure if that means they have an internal mandate that Office 365 must work with IE11, but I wouldn't be surprised. Those poor poor MS developers.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by bpicolo on Monday June 18, 2018 @09:35AM (#17338095)
I wouldn't call them "poor" in this case. WASM is super cool and has a hopeful future, but productionizing wasm apps is currently still quite difficult in practice - it's still missing a lot of relevant tooling (debugging is hard)
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