Say hello to the future of ProtonMail Introducing Version 4.0 beta

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I really love Protonmail. If only their Android app would be available on F-Droid.

A happy "visionary" subscriber.

I'm excited for the new products that this version will enable them to ship.

At the same time, interesting that they completely rewrote an angular app with react. I wonder if that was truly necessary and if their engineering effort could have been spent on more important things than constantly rewriting their frontend apps using different libraries.

The article states that their interface was from 2010 and in Angular 1, which is ancient by now for JS frameworks and there is no upgrade path to newer versions. It would have to be a rewrite either way.

9 years is a curios definition of "constantly rewriting".

I see, I didn't know that their frontend was that old. I also didn't know the difference between angular 1 and other angular. It was not fair to say "constantly rewriting".

I wonder in how many years they, or other users of React, will be required to rewrite all over again.

Technically it is built on AngularJS (a to be abandoned, separate framework) not Angular.

Right... here I am thinking that I'm surprised they lasted that long on Angular 1. I'm curious if they have also adopted typescript for the rewrite as well.

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