“A Microsoft employee claimed publicly that ‘all of Office 365’ was being ‘completely rewritten’ in JavaScript,” writes Paul Thurrott, adding “And then all hell broke loose.”
First things first. It’s not true. So if you were freaking out that Microsoft was somehow abandoning C# and C++ for its most mission-critical offerings, freak out no more. It’s not happening. So what is happening? A Microsoft program manager named Sean Larkin perhaps got a little overly-exuberant on Monday… he tried to clarify things in follow-up tweets when his original missive exploded intro controversy. Which shouldn’t have been a surprise. And yet, somehow, it was…
[H]e finally corrected himself on Reddit, blaming Twitter’s character limitations for his many factual errors. “We are not abandoning C++, C#, or any of the other awesome languages, APIs, and toolings that we use across Microsoft,” he clarifies. “Nothing [in Office 365] is converting to ‘all/completely’ JavaScript/TypeScript.”
Thurrott, a long-time Windows blogger, concludes that “getting something this big this wrong is inexcusable.”
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