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as a user, because even of beast of a machine native apps are faster, snappier, don't have a ton of shitty useless animations and gigantic spacings & margins be
by jcelerier 4y ago
as a user, because even of beast of a machine native apps are faster, snappier, don't have a ton of shitty useless animations and gigantic spacings & margins between everything. I swear whenever something animates in a UI it almost makes me reflex-xkill it.
good: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/static/ripcord_screenshot_win_6.png https://cancel.fm/ripcord/static/ripcord_screenshot_win_6.pn... (densely packed information, respects the fonts of my OS, menus with dialogs, opens in 0.01 second, etc.
bad: slack/discord. they make me want to stop using computers altogether whenever I have to interact through one of those
as a developer, for now my experiments porting code requiring full-throttle maximal performance from the user's hardware in https://ossia.io https://ossia.io to wasm for https://ossia.io/score-web https://ossia.io/score-web really still puts wasm in the "toy" section, it's like going back to 15 years old hardware. Sure, there's likely wasm-specific optimizations that would help, but i don't need to do any of those for maintaining mac / win / linux versions so this is a bit frustrating. Also wasm is not likely to be able to load the tens of thousands of native VST, etc... native-code-based plug-ins developed over the last decades.