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[–] Pechente@feddit.org 110 points 3 weeks ago (5 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 26 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

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