Wrestling a Giant C++ desktop app into your browser

Come hear the story of the journey from OpenOffice, through LibreOffice to Collabora Online. Hear about the code we repaired, re-factored, re-wrote and discarded, see some of the things we emptied from the dust-bin of bad design ideas, and language choices over many decades.

Hear about the excitement of bringing it to the wonderful, new, clean, web world - only to discover that the zoo of poor design decisions made it into browsers well in advance of us.

Despite all of this, see how we’re optimizing, and delivering a beautiful, open-source, in-browser, scalable, cloud-native, collaborative document editing experience built on LibreOffice.

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