Proooobably moreso a response to the Twitter drama from a few days ago where people were claiming that Facebook was moving away from RN... especially considering the author was in that thread.

Wasn't really a response to either actually. :)

Then I stand corrected. The view from 5000 feet seemed that way, but happy to be wrong. :)

Could you please send an RN-invested soul like myself a link to said drama? :)

They already converted Skype to RN, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did that.

That would also be the day that I stop using MS Office as my go-to.

Why would you stop using it just because the migrate over to RN?

Do you know why LibreOffice moved away from Java?

Because the performance was just not good enough.

They had custom, native UI while the backend was running in Java.

And it just wasn't fast enough. Even when hot, throughput and latency weren't good enough.

So, they started moving to C++ as much as possible, as fast as possible. By now you can run Writer without Java at all.

Current JS runtimes are all slower than HotSpot.

Yet somehow we're to believe that doing the exact same mistake again will work better this time?

It'll still end up being slow and a memory hog.

Moore's law is dead. RAM is more expensive than at any other point in almost 10 years.

You can't just throw abstractions at everything at the cost of performance anymore, expecting the hardware to catch up.

And even Java is adding AOT and value types as a way to increase the performance.

Somehow I got the feeling that MSFT has been invaded by JavaScript developers.

A little sad, if it deemphasizes .net. I hope the Core transition doesn't turn into a boondoggle, though I'm afraid; it's taking a long time to reach parity with where the full framework was. The history of major language rewrites is not overly encouraging.

Working in C# on .net 4.5-4.7 is such a tremendously productive platform.

BUILD 2018 was full of .NET goodies, including .NET Core 3.0 roadmap with Forms/WPF/UWP/XAMLDirect support as the main goal.

It appears it is the usual political issues between Microsoft divisions, which I thought had gotten better after all the re-organizations that took place.

I wouldn't be surprised if this JavaScript everywhere wasn't yet another way Microsoft is trying to appear cool among the Google devotees crowd, like how they are jumping in PWAs as well.

Oh yes. I won't be surprised if VS Code team to be even bigger than their money making products.

Somehow you lost me there.

Microsoft is as relevant as ever outside SV coffee shops.

That's a ridiculous thing to say considering 50% of dev's are writing on Microsoft stacks and the company pulls in over 20 billion in actual profit each year.

If they can pull that off AND VS code being as performant on electron as it is I will be damn impressed.