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Comment by NetMageSCW

15 days ago

The only good thing to say about that is it removes the stupidity of using Electron (or the Microsoft Edge equivalent) for built-in Windows apps and the Start Menu. SMH.

The start menu never was electron. It's react native desktop. So, nodejs creating and updating native (well, winui 3) controls.

  • Heh, nodejs uses V8 which shares legacy with WebKit's JavaScript core, itself being forked from KDE's KJS. Fun to think that eventually, some KDE code spiritually made its way to the windows start menu