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Re:Our plans for Thunderbird on Android by the__alchemist on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:58AM (#31726516)
How about a minimalist office suite and email suite written in modern C++ or Rust? Performance and responsiveness are important!
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Re:Our plans for Thunderbird on Android by javajosh on Monday June 13, 2022 @05:23PM (#31731946)
Sure, it's just there's a lot of distance between compiler and browser. I'd argue the first thing to do is write a browser in Rust (I know Firefox has real components in it).
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