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MCArth

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    Comment #43744309

    This is completely out of touch with my worldview. I've lived in and around London my whole life and, while "see it say it sorted" is a common joke, I've never once heard someone s…

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    Comment #34562325

    Google analytics numbers don't include users with adblock

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    Comment #34078215

    Yup, but developer productivity with web library (e.g. react) > no library vanilla dom manipulation > canvas

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    Comment #34078199

    no need to roll your own solution. If you want to ship a game, go high level :D For web native rendering pixijs is good for 2d (and phaser is good also a good entry level). For 3d …

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    Comment #34072587

    As long as you don't read your writes and use transform for animations it won't cost you more than 0.5ms to 1ms per frame (could it be better? Sure. But developer productivity is i…

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    Comment #34068070

    Tbh when making a web game you'd be better served using standard web UI in tandem with your game even if canvas text wasn't blurry. Web libraries (react, etc) are very advanced and…

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    Comment #33981465

    article says fungible raised $300 million (_not_ at a $300 million valuation)

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    Comment #31861634

    This isn't true! I've encountered many bugs in safari (fullscreen pointer lock not working on most html elements comes to mind), and they certainly do not value quality.

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    Comment #31861586

    That's like saying we should be writing all our applications in assembly. No. Developer productivity is important, and it does impact the end user in quality and amount of features…

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    Comment #31861520

    This just isn't true! There are so many features that have not been supported long after other browsers implemented them (webgl 2 comes to mind, though that is finally available - …

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    Comment #31861484

    It's not just regex, it's a long list of features and bugs. The OP was simply giving an example. I've encountered many time-wasting bugs on safari in the past, which have simply be…

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    Comment #31703416

    Music to my ears - from my own experience, safari is a pain to deal with. I've run into many bugs that haven't been fixed for years, and they've lagged behind in implementing stand…

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    Comment #31550080

    I agree, if we had all started with it, it is nice. But it completely breaks backwards compatibility with the whole existing node.js ecosystem, costing countless developer hours. B…

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    Comment #31550066

    I agree, if we had all started with it, it is nice. But it completely breaks backwards compatibility with the whole existing node.js ecosystem, costing countless developer hours. I…

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    Comment #31527396

    Because for lots of code, they are interchangeable, and being able to write your code that runs on both the server and client can be very useful. Not to mention that splitting the …

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    Comment #31527368

    I've spent a significant number of hours bashing my head against the same issue and reading tons of GitHub issue threads It seems to come down to the es module spec being half bake…

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    Comment #31527348

    I completely disagree with this as someone who's spent a significant number of hours bashing my head against the same issue and reading tons of GitHub issue threads It seems to com…