If, like me, you've been ignoring Microsoft for a couple decades, this might blow your mind:

All of Office 365 is (almost finished) being completely rewritten in this little scripting language called #JavaScript. And Skype And Microsoft Teams And @Code And all of @MSEdgeDev Debug Protocol (instead of C++) nbd

https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128

@deafferret As a non tech person, is this good or bad?

@johny uhh... good I suppose? I've been avoiding Microsoft since NT 4.0 destroyed me in 1997 (WAY too many all nighters rebooting servers).

It mostly blows my mind that JS is being used for local apps (offline Office). Last I knew (up till a week ago) C# was the Microsoft jam. Hard to wrap my head around such a high level language being performant for non-trivial fat client apps.

Live long enough and shit changes, yo. :)

@deafferret I have feeling that everyone shits on Microsoft, thats why I asked. That is not my field of profession, they probably shit for reason. I'm bound to windows, other OS don't support programs that I use for work (civil engineering). I would be happy if I could switch to linux as being open source platform, but seems that might not come soon.

@johny In my case, they earned their 2 decades of fear and loathing from me. What they did to me was vicious, terrible.

That said, if my grandfather can forgive his captors (World War II POW), then surely I can let it go and give Microsoft a big hug in 2018 and beyond. I wish them all the best. I've been hearing good things in recent years. :)