• turtle [he/him]@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    What in tar nation? Why would they ever do such a thing? The main point of React Native is to make an application cross-platform (i.e., so it can run on multiple operating systems). What’s the point in developing a Windows Start menu that can run on macOS, Android, or whatever?

    Unless they’re going for the second point of React Native, which is to be able to develop with JavaScript, which has an abundance of developers (i.e., it’s less expensive). Maybe they thought that this was the main point, regardless of performance issues.

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      1 day ago

      If I were to venture a guess, it’s so that they can use the same start menu in multiple iterations of windows without tinkering (so, for example, they could dump a windows environment onto an xbox as an app). Kind of an ass backwards way of doing so in my opinion, but that’s on-brand for modern microsoft

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      1 day ago

      Cross platform you say? So…like…ARM? 🙂

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        1 day ago

        At a higher level, as in multiple operating systems. I think it’s probably high enough that it doesn’t care much about the hardware platform as long as it’s supported. But I don’t know the technical details of developing with React Native.

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      20 hours ago

      Why would they ever do such a thing?

      Hmm I wonder why…

      The main point of React Native is to make an application cross-platform

      Oh so you know? Why are you wondering then?

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          6 hours ago

          What a strange thing to say lol.

          I was pointing out that you asked why they would do something while answering why they would do something straight after.

          • turtle [he/him]@lemm.ee
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            6 hours ago

            Your post came across pretty harsh.

            Also, you probably didn’t read my whole post. The point I was making was that the primary reason to use React Native is for cross-platform development, THEREFORE it makes no sense to use it for the Windows start menu because what would be the point of porting that to another OS?