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I was surprised there was only a mention of frameworks. One obvious shift I’ve seen is in the use of the WASM and Web GL compiled applications. The likes of Fi

I was surprised there was only a mention of frameworks. One obvious shift I’ve seen is in the use of the WASM and Web GL compiled applications. The likes of Figma and Superhuman are making incredible leaps in user performance. I suspect serious companies will make strides here.

carapace 6y ago
Yeah, JavaScript's Third Age will be ceding the browser to better languages due to WASM, no?
Androider 6y ago
That's super interesting, never heard that about Figma. Is the entirety of Figma in WASM or just the core drawing engine?
- jedieaston 6y ago
  Looks to be the entire app: https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x/ https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
- rudi-c 6y ago
  Design document are stored, manipulated, and rendered in WASM and WebGL. The surrounding UI (toolbar, properties panel, layers panel, etc) is written in React. It's done that way because documents can get really large and having more low-level memory management helps a lot there. On the other hand, writing UI in C++ is really tedious and React has served us great. For non-performance sensitive areas, I'd much rather use TypeScript + React, despite being comfortable writing C++. So obviously we're big fans on WASM, but we don't expect nor want JS/HTML/CSS to go away anytime soon.
swyx 6y ago
author here! i left that one specifically out bc a) i dont really know much about it and b) thats not technically JS (btw i think superhuman uses coffeescript not wasm/webgl). i am focusing on js here. but all entitled to their opinions, js could die in 10 years for all we know