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> Rust isn't some silver bullet Rust codebases extend in size and scale to larger teams fundamentally better than C++ / C. Rust offers more leverage in building ambitious system so…

Sounds a lot like the effect of venture capital in the present day. > First of all, the best scientists would be removed from their laboratories and kept busy on committees passing…

> the difference between this and an IPO is academic in my view More theatrical than academic — if both options have a risky short-term outlook, optimize for the story. Sold for $2…

Arguably, the money game is exactly what Figma was playing all along. Dylan's good at this game, as are the VCs he partnered with. Figma's flagship product was private equity. The …

> It's that Adobe was likely seeing subscription revenue take hit from customers While being pummeled by public markets, and being forced to make a move that might keep shareholder…

"Hand-off" describes a paradigm of designer/developer collaboration where a designer creates a mock-up or prototype, then "hands off" that picture to a developer who then creates t…

So they made a slightly better Adobe. Figma is all about collaborating on software — yet they don't touch software. They have been incrementally innovative in involving design-adja…

When Adobe acquired Macromedia, they extinguished an entire paradigm of design tool: "design tools that create software." Back in the booming 90's, this paradigm was _the future_. …

Sure, $2T — a fundamental innovation in how we "design and build" software has implications as far-reaching as the World Wide Web itself. Google IS the World Wide Web — they have p…

Figma was never on track to change the world. They were an Adobe clone from the beginning, out-executing them, but fundamentally exactly as anti-innovative. Not that $20B is anythi…