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C#/.NET would work just fine as well. Surprising they don’t want to eat their own…

Microsoft has poor employee retention, which in some groups is especially noticeable because they reinvent the wheel every 2-3 years.

Right now everything is JavaScript. Shh! I’m talking! I said everything! To the point that getting a non-SPA code sample for Azure Identity is a serious research exercise. That Visual Studio will deploy a blank ASP.NET project that has mostly JavaScript in it. And so on…

that'll work great on Mac and Linux and the web...

Alternatively, they could just keep the Web version and be done with it.

Heh, now that's a hopeful dream

Better yet, protocol specs.