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soco
on March 22, 2021
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Thunderbird 2020 Financial Report
On an (un)related note, I only new realized they have been all this time rewriting Thunderbird in JavaScript.
dblohm7
on March 23, 2021
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Thunderbird already was written using JavaScript; all Gecko-based applications are.
galaxyLogic
on March 22, 2021
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That's not unrelated I think. It is interesting.
Does it mean it will be slow? Does it mean it is basically based on Node.js?
johannes1234321
on March 22, 2021
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It already is written in KavaScript for large parts. However Firefox/Gecko deprecated the XUL UI system, which is used by Thunderbird, so they have to swap the UI toolkit to something else.
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