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President/CTO Aviron Software | Making business run better with software

Microsoft recently removed React code from their Edge browser and replaced it with what they're calling WebUI 2.0. If you didn't know, previously, many menus inside of Edge - favorites, settings, etc. - were powered by React. Predictably, this has caused lots of clickbait headlines like "Microsoft Regrets Using React For Edge". Same "regret" that they had when they replaced C# with Rust in the online version of Microsoft Office, I'm sure. The truth is, these kinds of claims are outlandish and ridiculous. They paint Microsoft as a caricature of sorts. At the time, the decision to build fast probably made more sense than to over-optimize - afterwards the decision to remove the slower-than-they-needed-yet-stable code became an easy one, once they had solved the hardest or most important problems first.

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