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Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Pechente@feddit.org 118 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Meta is also planning to drop its native WhatsApp Windows app in favor of a web wrapper version soon, in what looks like a move to simplify WhatsApp development.

So they are just going back to what they had before, probably to save money.

But don’t they have AI now which makes development so much faster, easier and cheaper? It’s these things where you can see these companies are full of bullshit.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What? It feels like a web wrapper right now, I always thought it was an old backend because the web app had better functionality.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

IIRC the WhatsApp app is a native Windows app using C++ and XAML, while the Messenger app is a React Native app.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

Tangentially related but I have to harp on about it because almost nobody is saying it. Microsoft —and specifically xbox — Had it’s most profitable yearS ever and people (journalists) still try to rationalize every time they raise prices and lay off thousands and thousands of workers

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The AI stuff might genuinely factor into it, I largely don’t use it myself but from what I understand from some colleagues it’s churning out decent react and co, while other languages can have mixed results.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

That’s quite an interesting take. I also noticed that it’s magnitudes better at coding with common frameworks and often sucks with more niche applications.