Key takeaways:
Microsoft and its leadership refrained from endorsing Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign, unlike some other major tech companies.
However, European governments and enterprises are increasingly breaking ties with Microsoft products in favor of open-source alternatives.
Experts say such a transition can be largely attributed to Trump’s hostile policy towards Europe, which sparked digital sovereignty efforts.
Microsoft has reiterated its digital commitments, but it is yet to be seen if that’s enough to assuage concerns over dependency on US tech.
I know it’s a somewhat myth (or a thing of the past) that Java virtual machine is inefficient. But I was pretty disappointed to learn that Libre Office is written in Java. I mean, I don’t expect to see Rust (however, why not?), but not Java either.
Java did make sense when swing was coming out, and for a product like LibreOffice write one run anywhere is a big factor.
I don’t know what the state of cross platform UI is these days outside of Tauri/electron, or if GTK works.
I agree that JVM isn’t horribly inefficient, but I think Java’s design patterns are.
Tauri uses system WebView, which on linux is webkit2-gtk. It’s crap.
I think they’re investigating bundling similar to electron, or using servo. Not sure if any progress has been made over the last year