I don't know what was going on behind the scenes but as a user of their mail app it felt barebones. So to see them working on a full rewrite for years instead of moving forward is kinda surprising. Like bro its a mail app features are more important than speed or memory safety.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

Their wanting to add features over all platforms is the reason they did the rewrite. Implementing consistent features over web, Android and iOS without a common codebase is a waste of engineering time and would've led to bad quality over the years.

[–] elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

to me, a reliable, and efficient mail client is more important that a bunch of features.

Just my option though.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

They only just got swipe capability for going from one email to the next in the app. I'm super happy it happened but damn it took long enough.