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With Figma being so incredibly performant and robust as a web assembly app, why don't more apps turn to this approach instead?
by Solvency 3y ago
With Figma being so incredibly performant and robust as a web assembly app, why don't more apps turn to this approach instead?
- nosequel 3y agoFigma was started in 2012, while definitely successful, it wasn't exactly built quickly. C++ on WASM is performant, but probably not super easy to bootstrap a new project on.
- Solvency 3y agoTrue but doesn't Rust support WASM? Author is using Rust.
- rtpg 3y agoThe challenge is more in the stack. Building GUIs is tricky, and the web stack offers a lot of useful tools which make it a very good default choice from a “get shipped” perspective. Qt is nice but it sure feels like a big step back in velocity for me
- crabmusket 3y agoIt's no silver bullet: https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_post_mortem.html https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_post_mortem.html