"Loads" is an interesting take to consider when looking at application performance. Simply starting the application is largely irrelevant. What's the experienc

"Loads" is an interesting take to consider when looking at application performance. Simply starting the application is largely irrelevant. What's the experience using it? What features do you have access to? Those are the things that matter. If we wanted to take that point though, even if we assume the browser-based stuff gets the startup time for free (since most people have a browser open most of the time I'd wager), what's the process of loading a local file on my system like? Docs or Sheets might "load" faster than LibreOffice but what's the time-to-use look like? Do I have to sync files somewhere Docs/Sheets can have access to it? What's the "[double-]click to load local file" part of the equation here? What about the actual use of the application? Is there the instant responsiveness to open color selection dialogs in the case of Illustrator? How useable is it from a plugin perspective? Are we actually comparing comparable applications? There's lots to ask there. This is why I don't think startup time actually matters. What matters is what the experience of using something like Figma is over Illustrator, Sheets vs Numbers, XCode vs VSCode, etc. The example I gave of two local apps is a relevant and more directly comparable one. Eclipse does everything just faster than VSCode. VSCode is my typical "general editor of choice" for a variety of things but the slowness of reading a few large Java packages led me to get a current version of Eclipse and give it a go. Seriously, go try it out on any substantially large Java project. There's measurable lag in syntax highlighting upon opening a file, switching between files, performing some basic "find references" type tasks, and so on. In Eclipse it's just fast. Maybe everything will eventually be JS-based and it will become a meaningless comparison. I don't buy that we're there yet.