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Yes, I don't mean that it affects the present. Only sad in a nostalgia sense.

This is a lazy statement based on extremely vague handwaving about desktop v.s. web. It's not the 2010s anymore. Time to drop these generalities. Users were migrating to us _from_ …

That's sad but sensical. Fun fact, Figma originally started as a fully C++ codebase, and Asm.js was key in proving that it would be possible to run a design tool in the browser. Th…

> If you're working online (eg figma), you can just download history lazily. You can download the history lazily, that's a special case of incrementally loading the document. If th…

re: git repositories That's partly because repositories rarely need to be cloned in their entirety. As such, even when you need to do it and it's a couple hundreds mb taking a few …

Electron does not belong in the same category as React & Vue. JavaScript frameworks are commonly understood to mean: - Third-party libraries, almost always implemented in JS (techn…

Everyone else in this thread is talking about (React/Angular/Vue/JQuery/etc) v.s. (Plain JS/Direct DOM manipulation/etc). Running that code on top of Electron or not is entirely or…

I mean, you're correct that Obsidian doesn't run on the browser. But it's built on web technologies. As a result, I would argue that the overlap between the skillset and work neede…

That you believe frameworks were invented to serve employers is a cynical point of view. I'm sorry for whatever bad experience you've had with the frameworks or people using them t…

Framework is unfortunately a term that's both ill-defined and quite overloaded. Electron is a framework in a very different sense than the "JS frameworks" op is asking about. The l…

When you're writing only a "couple lines of code", you can do pretty much anything you want. There's no real tradeoffs to discuss except in a theoretical sense, because the stakes …

The important thing in any "large" application is to set consistent patterns for doing common tasks: creating UI components, re-using them, updating their content as a result of da…

The contents of this article are pretty old, but the static website's design has been revamped (I believe several times) since then. My guess it that the two may have just fallen o…

There's definitely others that shared your perspective. A commonly cited reason of early Figma adopters was that they felt it was faster than Sketch. Of course, the reality was tha…

There's plenty of server-side components to Figma that are substantially more complex and expensive than that of the typical website. Multiplayer means that every file that are use…

Font rendering is indeed complex, but the anecdote seems to be misleading readers into thinking Evan wrote obscure code. I worked extensively in the parts of the Figma where Evan w…

This looks like interesting technology! Congrats on the launch, it's great to have people exploring the space of realtime data storage & sync. Some thoughts, that I hope you can fi…

There's a similar situation with Go where some positions utterly confuse bots trained on playing mostly normal games. There was this interesting research blog post on training a bo…

Almost always when I see a statement of the form "people in group X are doing two contradictory things", it's very likely that it's different people in group X that said those thin…

Parent mentioned the lack of tooling, and that is indeed where most of the cost of using WebAssembly lies. You don’t really need to learn the assembly language itself since you’ll …

It would be quite challenging to make such a business model work with collaboration-centric features. Features such as multiplayer editing, in addition to requiring some carefully …

The idea of focusing diversity isn't at odds with focusing on competence. The premise is that certain groups of people who do not fit the stereotype of a male, nerdy, white or asia…

Good question! Looks like I might have slipped an internal term in there inadvertently. It just refers to type definition/interface declaration files for objects that are stored in…

Strict null checks doesn't change the language. It doesn't make the `null` feature of JavaScript go away, it just makes it more explicit in the type annotation. So `null` isn't bad…

> I'm a huge fan of strictNullChecks but it is remarkable how much language features contribute towards making non-nullable types ergonomic. For sure, that was our experience as we…