On: Things engineers believe about Web development

[grose]

I believe Figma is indeed written in C++ and uses emscripten. It's pretty much the polar opposite of your standard CRUD app.

Old article: https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...

[traverseda → grose]

Huh, Guess I was right :p

So neither of those are a good argument in favour of these complicated javascript stacks, are they?

[rezonant → traverseda]

Just because Figma opted for this route doesn't make it right for all interactive web applications.

[traverseda → rezonant]

Yeah. That's what the little `:p` at the end of that comment meant.