The senior vice president of Microsoft Teams announced that Teams would be moving to their own Edge Webview2 Rendering Engine ditching Electron for seeking performance gains. It is marketed that Teams would consume 2x less memory as a result of the transition. It would be called Teams 2.0 and might ship with Windows 11 in late 2022.

  • @jokeyrhyme
    19•3 years ago

    Given that Edge is a fork of Chromium, this isn’t likely to be the tectonic “ditching Electron” announcement that people will probably expect, looks like Teams will still be written in TypeScript, etc

    Microsoft does have optimisations and other features in Edge that are not (yet) in Chromium and thus not in Electron, so this is still a good move