Indeed they have. What’s missing in some of the discussion here is the size of the application. For large applications like Office, a shared code base is often the correct strategy.

I work on Office and am glad someone brought up this point. Writing a C++ business logic layer is probably too much for a simple CRUD style app, but the equation changes once the view/platform layers are a tiny minority of the logic in your app.

Anyone knows how Adobe create their cross platform apps?