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Re:The Future of Thunderbird by jeltz on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:15PM (#34727367)
No, because they have already done that (except on Firefox instead of Chromium).
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Re:The Future of Thunderbird by layer8 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:18PM (#34727424)
Do they use JavaScript outside the UI?
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Re:The Future of Thunderbird by tredre3 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:20PM (#34732465)
The SMTP client is now written in javascript and most of the IMAP client as well.

The whole calendaring system is written in javascript.

The chat clients (irc, matrix, etc) are also written in javascript.

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Re:The Future of Thunderbird by layer8 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:12PM (#34733082)
Okay, so not that dissimilar to an Electron stack after all.
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