• Caveman@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, if they were trying to limit RAM usage they wouldn’t have gone for React Native. The React Native runtime takes more RAM than the Hermes JS engine which is usually used.

    The thing I don’t understand is why they didn’t use C#, it’s like right there, first class support for the WinUI stuff and made by them.

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      “The start menu demonstrates we can port all our essential frontend code to React Native. Today we announce a new translation layer that runs C# as react native code. There is no technical reason to do this which is why we had AI write it.”

      • MS in 2026