alt Hacker News> being told web assembly helps some parts of Figma run faster feels like a big let down.
Not really when tools like Figma were not really possible before it
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pjmlp • last Friday at 4:17 PM
Yet Figma like tools do exist without Wasm.
> being told web assembly helps some parts of Figma run faster feels like a big let down.
Not really when tools like Figma were not really possible before it
Yet Figma like tools do exist without Wasm.
What was preventing the development of Figma before Wasm?
For developing brand new code, I don't think there's anything fundamentally impossible without Wasm, except SIMD.