Microsoft is rewriting Windows 11 shell in native code, killing the web slop slowing your PC

Key points

• Microsoft is finally removing web-based components from Windows 11 to make the OS more native.
• Ever since Windows 11 launched, newer desktop applications have felt like a massive compromise.
• Microsoft originally launched the operating system with a beautiful new visual language, but it was executed with sluggish web wrappers, React Native components, and Electron frameworks.
• Developers originally flocked to these web-based frameworks because they simplified cross-platform development.
• A single codebase could theoretically run across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and the web.