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> with WebAssembly I think we’ll start to see native performance on the web instead of the other way around.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. WebAssembly doesn't do anything to help the rendering bottleneck. To do that you really have to replace (or innovate in some way) the DOM.




I think the approach many is taking is just put a canvas and draw on top. Internally, you may end up creating another DOM like structure to store all your objects. The worst thing about this approach is that you lose all browser's native support like accessibility. I think Flutter is using a combination of DOM, CSS and canvas.


Sure, but at that point it's not really "web" anymore. You're just writing to a WebGl or WGPU canvas, which you could do just as well from a "native" app.


So we've basically reinvented Java applets - 25 years later.




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