• lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    29 days ago

    Without going to details : the easier a programming language / framework, the more resource intensive. So if you’re a billion dollar company making software that’ll be run on 80% of user devices, you hire people who can handle making optimised programs so users don’t melt their machine to check their e-mails.

    React native is a framework that is making developing programs with JavaScript easier, JavaScript is a language that is designed to be easy and cross-platform. So that means Microsoft likely made a bunch of interns work on this to save money while the users have to deal with atrocious performances