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Did I understand correctly? So they include the whole browser tech stack for a simple graph? Am I the only one who finds it strange - rendering text and polygon

by fsloth 11y ago

Did I understand correctly? So they include the whole browser tech stack for a simple graph? Am I the only one who finds it strange - rendering text and polygons is not exactly rocket science.

blub 11y ago
If done in HTML, it is rocket science. When I started reading and they mentioned that only a graph is cross-platform, I was thinking - "oh, they probably used OpenGL". Little did I know...
- pjmlp 11y ago
  It is called canvas and 2D drawing hardly rocket science.
currysausage 11y ago
> So they include the whole browser tech stack for a simple graph? And they have the balls to post it on a blog with "Engineering" in its title. Then again, this appears to be the new standard of doing things. We consider the browser to be today's operating system, and modern apps (Spotify, Visual Studio Code, Atom, etc.) bring their own operating system. Fire up your editor and jot down a quick note? Yeah, why not make coffee while it's loading. Back to the future, I guess.
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