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Figma is getting too slow. Open browser tab, get a cup of coffee slow. Love what they did for the space and solutions they unseated, but they are mildly losing
by 88913527 4y ago
Figma is getting too slow. Open browser tab, get a cup of coffee slow. Love what they did for the space and solutions they unseated, but they are mildly losing their edge.
- pcurve 4y agoAre you using Mac? I've seen noticeable performance issue in past few months on my 4 year old Mac Book Pro. However, it seems to just run on my 9 year old 3570 corei5 windows.
- willio58 4y agoMaybe it’s just because I’ve been using an M1 MacBook Pro but figma absolutely flies for me without any hiccups.
- echelon 4y agoIt's time for WASM and Rust. DOM tools can render to their own optimized GPU-accelerated canvas and ditch DOM outright.
- cercatrova 4y agoFigma already uses WASM and Rust. > DOM tools can render to their own optimized GPU-accelerated canvas and ditch DOM outright. This is literally exactly what Figma does.
- klysm 4y agoFurthermore it’s the only very popular app I know of to do that
- leodriesch 4y agoGoogle Docs also does that [0]. [0]: http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-Canvas-Based-Rendering-Update.html http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-C...
- lelandfe 4y agoLichess, Adobe XD, several Google products. Probably more I’m forgetting.
- RobbieGM 4y agoI'm pretty sure lichess doesn't do that. Even the chess board is done in the DOM.
- rikroots 4y agoThe big worry I have about this sort of approach is canvas accessibility. It's something the company also seems to be worried about - they put out a statement a couple of months ago about their plans to address accessibility issues going forward - https://www.figma.com/blog/a-step-forward-in-our-accessibility-efforts/ https://www.figma.com/blog/a-step-forward-in-our-accessibili...