7K views · Oct 20, 2014 · 56:52 · 2 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2016–2019
A CppCon 2014 talk by Microsoft engineers on how Office delivers a single-source C++ codebase across iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. It covers architectures, techniques and lessons from shipping cross-platform products.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited in Electron, Flutter and React Native debates as evidence that large products can share C++ core code with native views.
“Microsoft have a very interesting approach with their Office suite when it comes to cross-platform development.”HN comment, 2017
“Pretty interesting talk about cross platform Office.”
How Office shares code between Windows and Mac
Word for Windows and Word for Mac are much closer together than you may realize. Pretty interesting talk about cross platform Office. Part 1: link Part 2: this video
“Microsoft have a very interesting approach with their Office suite when it comes to cross-platform development.”
Microsoft's approach to cross-platform Office development
Microsoft have a very interesting approach with their Office suite when it comes to cross-platform development. They go through it in some detail in this talk: this video
“The Office team did a couple of session at CppCon about how they refactored the code.”
Office team talk on refactoring code for cross-platform use
Since 2014 not anymore. The Office team did a couple of session at CppCon about how they refactored the code. "CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms" link this video
One of several cited CppCon cross-platform C++ talks
I did provide the information for it, Dropbox and Microsoft talks at CppCon, easy with some Google fu. CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part I" link CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II" this video CppCon 2015: Jacob Potter & Andrew Twyman “Bridging Languages Cross-Platform..." link CppCon 2017: Stephen Spann “Cross-Platform Apps with Dropbox’s Djinni...” link CppCon 2014: T. Grue & S. Kabbes "A Deep Dive into 2 Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Written in C++" link Naturally the native UI has to be used. Are we talking about having a good user experience here, or having the easy lazy path for the developer?
“they have plenty of talks at CppCon and BUILD about how they do it.”
Cited as verification of how Office does C++ with native views
Yes, C++ with native views. How do you think Microsoft does Office on Android and iOS? As for verification, they have plenty of talks at CppCon and BUILD about how they do it. EDIT: to save you some work. CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part I" link CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II" this video Reacting to Dropbox: another take on cross-platform C++ development link Ashampoo Systems GmbH link
