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I also think it’s extremely unlikely MS is announcing an new native code compiler for JavaScript, something I’m not sure anyone knows how to do with reasonable performance, with a Tweet this casual.

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Web Views with native API's. So not truly native compilation.

Has been said many many many times , it's not electron for Windows 10 , it's React Native .NET which bridges the built in Javascript VM with WPF. So it's not a web view for UWP, it's 100% native code.

> it's 100% native code

He's said it's not compiling the JavaScript to native code - it's running it in a normal JavaScript JIT. It's not 100% native code.

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