Appflowy proves Rust is a great language to build end user apps

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Post by tomaszs » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 1:55 PM UTC

Appflowy proves Rust is a great language to build end user apps
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Re: Appflowy proves Rust is a great language to build end user apps

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Post by rubymamis » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 2:00 PM UTC

Appflowy has extremely poor performance. Both in terms of loading large files and RAM usage. See my performance comparison of block editors[1]:

I've built a block editor using Qt C++ and QML that is vastly more performant[2].

As you can see, Appflowy probably even has a memory leak, causing the memory to grow indefinitely in my test.

[1] https://imgur.com/ZL5QCS0

[2] https://www.get-plume.com/

Re: Appflowy proves Rust is a great language to build end user apps

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Post by tomaszs » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 1:04 PM UTC

rubymamis wrote: post #2

Appflowy has extremely poor performance. Both in terms of loading large files and RAM usage. See my performance comparison of block editors[1]: I've built a block editor using Qt C++ and QML that is vastly more performant[2]. As you can see, Appflowy probably even has a memory leak, causing the memory to grow indefinitely in my test. [1] https://imgur.com/ZL5QCS0 [2] https://www.get-plume.com/

Thanks for the info. It's an exciting project!

Re: Appflowy proves Rust is a great language to build end user apps

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Post by maelito » Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 5:37 PM UTC

Probably the reason why you can't use it on the Web. Makes it not interesting for at least 50 % of the potential userbase.