Rusty the Borgor King on Nostr: I mean, Hermes was still a pretty big bottleneck. There's a reason they're shifting ...

I mean, Hermes was still a pretty big bottleneck. There's a reason they're shifting away from ReactNative and it's giving Windows 11 some decent performance gains. But yeah, I'd argue that the Start menu did run on Javascript, but it's definitely a far cry from being web-based.

Microsoft really bungled Windows 11 though. Windows 10 was popular enough that they should've taken their time, built out their SDKs, and then get every team on board to use that unified SDK to remake Windows 11 from the ground-up under a centralized toolkit and design language. Instead you have teams who are floundering for a toolkit to use and just kinda, "eh, fuck it, someone make a ReactNative wrapper so we can finally MVP some shit." Such is the nature of quarterly profits I guess, and Microsoft lacks the corporate structure that Apple has where they can really take their time to refine things before they strong-arm every team into using one thing.

I'm frankly surprised that Windows 11 rebuilt as much as it did. I thought Control Panel was gonna be a core part of the Windows experience forever. ​