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Comment by sunaookami

4 days ago

It's not made in React, only the "recommended" section is made with React Native which compiles to native XAML. No web technologies involved. And yes I will debunk this every time I see it :) .

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calmingsolitude  4 days ago

Here's the problem: your reply is factually correct, but it doesn't address the GP's overarching complaint - the start menu is simply not performant. And since the code powering the start menu is closed source, it is not possible to perform a benchmark to see if the react native portion of the start menu is to blame or if it is something else.

the_overseer  4 days ago

It's slower. It's laggy. The taskbar and menus need to be native code of the highest optimization. Anything less than instantaneous means that PMs, managers, coders and everyone there should not have a job working on OSes if they can't get this simple idea through their thick skulls.

  • hbn  4 days ago

    I've shared this on HN before, but starting with Windows 11, they seemingly started making the new UI essentially a separate process that runs on top of the existing Windows 10 UI and just modifies it.

    I learned this from a video where a guy was seeing how much of the Program Files folder you can delete before Windows breaks, and at some point it reverts to the Windows 10 UI.

    https://youtu.be/BVIN_PJu2rs?t=565

    • z500  4 days ago

      I got so frustrated with how slow the file explorer got after my work laptop updated. Turns out the new UI is just shell extensions, if you add registry keys to redirect them to non-existent paths you get the old file explorer back.

    • sunaookami  4 days ago

      They also don't run animations in a separate process since Windows 10 which means that under high load everything lags. In Windows 8.1 everything was buttery smooth thanks to DirectUI. macOS and iOS also run animations separately.

    • mghackerlady  4 days ago

      Isn't this how pretty much every evolution of windows design has worked? at least from what I remember the windows 10 ui is built on top of aero (though admittedly I don't use windows and have never interacted with it for anything serious)

    • the_overseer  4 days ago

      This is even more insane than I thought. Truly madness. Everybody involved with that should be fired and sent to the moon as an experiment on how long does the human body survive naked on both the dark side and the bright side of the moon. At least we will learn something from those experiments.... (it's a joke but the point stands. Those people shouldn't ever be allowed to touch computers.)

juliangoldsmith  3 days ago

As someone who as attempted to use React Native for Windows, I can tell you that the "native" XAML doesn't make things any better. If it was using web technologies I wouldn't need to manually modify RNSVG to fix segfaults when an SVG goes offscreen.

kasabali  4 days ago

> And yes I will debunk this every time I see it :) .

Being technically correct doesn't make it any less annoying, unfortunately.

  • sunaookami  3 days ago

    Lying to "prove" a point and basing discourse on lies gets us nowhere. Windows start menu is not slow because of React. We should correct common misconception more often.

    • jpc0  3 days ago

      Could you write us a nice blog post or article with performance metrics to prove this?

      You might be correct but at this point your statement is as much a lie as the parent.

mghackerlady  4 days ago

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  • dajtxx  4 days ago

    Don't kwow why you're getting downvoted, seems like a reasonable comment to me.

    I agree, JavaScript and all it has enabled is a curse.

    If one wanted the good bits of JavaScript I'm sure there are languages they were copied from that could be used instead.