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		21 on Dec 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It is fast or it is wrong The Visual Studio Installer was rewritten from a native app to an Electron one. They had a native app. They decided to throw it all away.

zakius on Jan 11, 2019 | [–]

it's amusing how they managed to make the new installer as bad as old one was

pragmatic on Dec 30, 2018 | [–]

Can you elaborate on that?

pjmlp on Dec 30, 2018 | [–]

The JavaScript camp inside WinDev managed to get Electron to replace the WPF installer for VS 2017.

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