CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II"
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in Electron, Flutter and React Native debates as evidence that large products can share C++ core code with native views.
What it is
A CppCon 2014 talk by Microsoft engineers on how Office delivers a single-source C++ codebase across iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. It covers architectures, techniques and lessons from shipping cross-platform products.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Recommends golf1052 · 2016-11 · on “Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365”
Word for Windows and Word for Mac are much closer together than you may realize. Pretty interesting talk about cross platform Office. Part 1: [LINK] Part 2: [this video]
Recommends alimbada · 2017-05 · on “Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Desktop Apps?”
Microsoft have a very interesting approach with their Office suite when it comes to cross-platform development. They go through it in some detail in this talk: [this video]
Cites pjmlp · 2018-09 · on “$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft”
Since 2014 not anymore. The Office team did a couple of session at CppCon about how they refactored the code. "CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms" [LINK] [this video]
Cites pjmlp · 2019-08 · on “Flutter looks good, but is painful”
I did provide the information for it, Dropbox and Microsoft talks at CppCon, easy with some Google fu. CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part I" [LINK] CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II" [this video] CppCon 2015: Jacob Potter & Andrew Twyman “Bridging Languages Cross-Platform..." [LINK] CppCon 2017: Stephen Spann “Cross-Platform Apps with Dropbox’s Djinni...” [LINK] CppCon 2014: T. Grue & S. Kabbes "A Deep Dive into 2 Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Written in C++" [LINK] Naturally the native UI has to be used. Are we talking about having a good user experience here, or having the ea
Cites pjmlp · 2019-09 · on “Ask HN: React Native or Flutter?”
Yes, C++ with native views. How do you think Microsoft does Office on Android and iOS? As for verification, they have plenty of talks at CppCon and BUILD about how they do it. EDIT: to save you some work. CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part I" [LINK] CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II" [this video] Reacting to Dropbox: another take on cross-platform C++ development [LINK] Ashampoo Systems GmbH [LINK]