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A question - Which portion of Microsoft, the multi-headed beast develops pure-native apps now ? Even the Windows 11 Settings app is Javascript.

The multi-headed beast has been assimilated by web-tech. They can't code GUI C++ no more - except their compiler/graphics team. And even the latter are dying.



There are like three settings pages that use JavaScript and React Native, the vast majority of Settings is C++ and XAML/WinUI2


but that was already developed, all new development it's going with web based at microsoft


Id be interested in a source for both this and the parent's comment. How do we know which settings pages use which tech? Have people been decompiling them?


Pretty easy to know by just looking at app install folder, or, with Visual Studio, without any need to do any decompiling.

In practice, I guess most people realize because web tech just behaves different than native.




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