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Re:It is fast or it is wrong by 21 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @03:05PM (#18785410)
The Visual Studio Installer was rewritten from a native app to an Electron one.

They had a native app. They decided to throw it all away.

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Re:It is fast or it is wrong by zakius on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:16AM (#18882978)
it's amusing how they managed to make the new installer as bad as old one was
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Re:It is fast or it is wrong by pragmatic on Saturday December 29, 2018 @08:07PM (#18786713)
Can you elaborate on that?
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Re:It is fast or it is wrong by pjmlp on Sunday December 30, 2018 @06:14AM (#18788573)
The JavaScript camp inside WinDev managed to get Electron to replace the WPF installer for VS 2017.
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