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cpeterso on Jan 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s up with Firefox?

Plus Thunderbird is a huge C++ project. It seems like a modern desktop mail client could be built more quickly using Electron. There are already JavaScript libraries for IMAP. Thunderbird could be innovating on new client features instead of trying to keep up with the treadmill of Gecko C++ changes.

krzyk on Jan 25, 2017 | [–]

Not again, why would anyone prefer a bloated javascript based email client pretending to be a standalone one instead of a fast native one?

If I want a javascript one I can run a browser to access it.

flukus on Jan 27, 2017 | [–]

I really don't need any innovation from my email client.

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