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0 pointspdimitar5y ago0 comments

Sure, I'm not denying it. It's just that apparently it's very easy to produce slow-as-molasses UI with JS.

I've been working with the horrors called Windows MFC and Java Swing a long time ago. It was tough but if you did it right (moderately hard) you had a very snappy app on a computer that was 5x slower and had 10x less RAM than a midrange today's Android device.

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snake_case5y ago

You're exactly right! Building a slow web app is only one npm install away.

It takes someone who really cares about performance and monitors it to make a fast web app and to keep it that way. Unfortunately it's still too easy to accidentally make it slow.

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0 pointspdimitar5y ago0 comments

Sure, I'm not denying it. It's just that apparently it's very easy to produce slow-as-molasses UI with JS.

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snake_case5y ago

You're exactly right! Building a slow web app is only one npm install away.

It takes someone who really cares about performance and monitors it to make a fast web app and to keep it that way. Unfortunately it's still too easy to accidentally make it slow.

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