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>It's one of the most inefficient, slow, resource hungry app platforms that humanity has ever devised. Is it? JavaScript interpreters are crazy fast, almost c

• illiarian 3y ago
  > Is it? It is. None of what you write is either fast or efficient. Especially not the layout engine that does a re-layout and a re-paint as soon as you look at it sideways I always say when people talk about efficiency: There's a reason you can't animate height: auto or a list item efficiently without hacks. As is the reason why opacity changes are outright banned on lower-end devices like TVs. The limitations of this system designed to display static text are such that a non-issue like quickly displaying scrolling text becomes a problem: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-renderer https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-rend...
  • thomaslord 3y ago
    A large part of the issue is the modern Javascript ecosystem too. The browser isn't the most efficient way to build apps, sure, but using a virtual DOM adds a whole extra layer of performance issues.
    • illiarian 3y ago
      > but using a virtual DOM adds a whole extra layer of performance issues. You mean the fastest libraries like ivi use Virtual DOM ;) : https://twitter.com/RyanCarniato/status/1636120238638137344 https://twitter.com/RyanCarniato/status/1636120238638137344