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They're both pretty slow considering the ridiculous hardware of today's computers. We're really running a lot of our stuff on layers and layers of performance-d
by mhd 15y ago
They're both pretty slow considering the ridiculous hardware of today's computers. We're really running a lot of our stuff on layers and layers of performance-draining abstractions... I remember the days when my friends were complaining about the unneccesary slowdown of MUI apps for their Amigas and I was reading Michael Abrash's Black Book to improve my line-drawing routines. Granted, I surely don't want to go back to the days of Mode X DOS programming, but the whole web stack is really one baroque mess, despite the heroic achievements of browser and Javascript VM developers.
- cageface 15y agoI completely agree. So much clever engineering is being devoted right now to making HTML do things it was never intended to do. I'm not happy about the shift to proprietary native platforms but selfishly I'm so much happier coding close to the metal in iOS with a well-designed UI toolkit.
- mhd 15y agoClose to the metal? Well, in your case that might be true, but I see more and more applications on mobile devices that are pretty small wrappers around Webkit views, as this makes portability easier and harnesses the existing skills of the developers.